On Sep 21, 2013, at 2:42 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alright, I'm going to add this comment here, having perused the rest of the > thread. > > I find it a little amusing that people on this list keep referring to Pentax > dosing something, (that includes me by the way). Pentax isn't going to do > anything. Pentax no longer exists. That's like saying Cadillac doesn't exist because it's a brand of General Motors. You probably don't remember, but Pentax was once a brand of Asahi. The sky isn't falling. Paul > There isn't even a Pentax division of Ricoh anymore. All we can hope is that > Ricoh, designs builds and markets K mount cameras a little smarter than > Pentax and then Hoya did, though history doesn't offer a lot of hope there. > > Ricoh seems to think that their own brand is the prestige photographic brand > compared with Pentax and they've made a conscious effort to make Pentax a > secondary brand. Unfortunately, I don't think this bodes all that well for > the future, it seems like a bad marketing decision. I've seen a lot of those > from Pentax over the years, I suppose that it's good to see that Ricoh has > decided to carry on at least some of Pentax's traditions. > > On 9/20/2013 5:12 AM, Tanya Love wrote: >> But, K3 - October. >> >> That's all I'm saying... :-) >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> > > > -- > A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, > crazier. > > - H.L.Mencken > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
