Very true. Although I still have great admiration for Boris's pessimism :-)
Steve Desjardins On Nov 3, 2013, at 1:15 AM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/11/2013 10:56 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: >> I'm Jewish, Bill and I pride myself in being an amateur photographer. I >> suppose I am also an amateur pessimist. Now, I think that as a >> photographer I am not half bad... It is up to you to complete this line >> of reasoning :-). >> >> I'm not saying that Ricoh is doing badly by finally making proper >> investment (in all terms, not just money) into Pentax. Rather, I >> sincerely believe that all that rumor mill is not doing company any >> good. Each time there is a new release from Pentax, the rumor mill >> starts anew. This creates illogical expectations, starts new flame wars >> on internet forums and ultimately leads to people being disappointed. >> >> Pessimistic or not, I don't see any good in these things. > > Internet forums need to be taken for what they are worth. Over on the Fuji > forum at DPReview, a guy is wailing that Fuji isn't making a commitment to > the APS-C aensor size, and therefore he doesn't think Fuji is a good > purchase, just in case they dump APS-C in favour of 35mm. > Of course Fuji has never said anything one way or the other about 35mm. > Companies cannot do anything about the illogic of people, especially it seems > when they invest the degree of fanaticism into a camera brand that manifests > as overarching fanboyism. > Companies can't be responsible for people being disappointed over new > products, they can't be responsible for the illogical expectations of > fanatics, all they can do is put products on the market for sale, and try to > hit a market point that will buy it. > > If Pentax, or any company, was to place the importance you are implying they > should on the rumour mills of internet fanboys, they would pretty much have > to stop putting new products on the market entirely, since every new release > would be causing a new group of whack jobs to slit their wrists. > > It seems they really can't win. They put nothing on the market, and they go > out of business, they put new products on the market and that isn't a good > thing either. > > Respectfully Boris, and I mean this with all the love in my heart that I can > feel for a fellow human being, you need to give your head a shake. > > bill > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
