There was a rumor that Ricoh bought Pentax for it's distribution channels. What I know for sure is that the official Pentax distributor in Romania now also carries Ricoh cameras and the Ricoh GR gained some attention.
I just got the K3 in the last days of 2013 after a long wait. I didn't use it enough to draw a conclusion, but no problems with AF so far. Only minor complaint I have is that I'd like the status screen off by default and bring it up with the push of a button. Same as Bruce I think. Fiddled with it for some time, but it can't be done without multiple button presses. On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:09 PM, CollinB <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like Ricoh, with its miniscule photography market share, needed > Pentax just as much as Pentax, having little money, needed Ricoh. > It is a mutually beneficial relationship. > > I gave strong consideration to leaving Pentax until the K-3 advance came > out. > What I look for in the future is for R-P to do things like update the AF > system > to eliminate or greatly reduce hunting. Along with other necessities that > are firmware issues. > I'll give it a year to see if the character of the product does or does not > change. > > > > -- > 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.
