I'd be interested in hearing a bigger name in the fashion industry that has an affinity for Pentax, if you've got one. https://www.google.com/search?q=benjamin+kanarek+photographer
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:06 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Benjamin's not so big a name that Ricoh should care if he's back or not, I > bet most of us wouldn't even know who he is if he hadn't been a paid > promoter of Pentax, then again there's the K-01, and the out house designer > responsible, so maybe they do care, but who else does really? > > > On 2/13/2015 5:47 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> Interesting how nobody replied to this, which I wrote on Jan. 20th, >> regarding Benjamin Kanarek's sudden reappearance on dpreview Pentax >> Forum and PentaxForums.com. >> >> "Makes me wonder if he might not be evaluating an early edition of the >> Pentax FF (Ricoh trying to win one of their most influential >> professionals back into the fold). Naturally, with an NDA, he would >> not be free to speak about that but it might be in his (and Ricoh's) >> best interests if he became involved in the Pentax community again. >> </speculation>? >> >> Less than three weeks later Pentax confirms development of the full frame. >> >> I suspect that features are nailed down more than one might think and >> that the "artist's rendition" in the other thread is a working >> prototype (albeit with a 3d printed body) that is already in the hands >> of some pros who have signed NDAs like Kanarek. >> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> ... just about! This goes way beyond your usual review and (if you >>> aren't the kind to want to read the manual that came with your K-3) >>> this guy highlights a lot of the K-3s capabilities (many of which you >>> may not have realized even existed). 37 minutes, but definitely worth >>> watching if you own a K-3 or if you want a very lucid description of >>> its capabilities to push you "over the edge". >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88R8jfhfPe0 >>> >>> Interestingly, the link to this video was shared on the Pentax SLR >>> forum on dpreview.com by Benjamin Kanarek. You may remember him as the >>> former Pentax shooter who very publicly left Pentax for a Nikon D800 >>> for his professional work. >>> His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/benjaminkanarek/videos >>> >>> At the time he said that he would still use Pentax for travel and >>> leisure purposes. I find it interesting that he posted the K-3 video >>> because it is his first Pentax post there for a very long time. And I >>> wondered what precipitated that. >>> >>> Makes me wonder if he might not be evaluating an early edition of the >>> Pentax FF (Ricoh trying to win one of their most influential >>> professionals back into the fold). Naturally, with an NDA, he would >>> not be free to speak about that but it might be in his (and Ricoh's) >>> best interests if he became involved in the Pentax community again. >>> </speculation> >>> >>> -- >>> Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. >> >> >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.
