What is this word you say... marketing??? http://photo.net/photos/RickW
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:36 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > So what you're saying is that Ricoh is following the fine tradition of > Pentax marketing. > > On 1/4/2016 11:59 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> I preface this by saying that if I had to choose between a company >> that had crappy marketing and superb engineering vs a company that had >> superb marketing and crappy engineering I would certainly take the >> former... but I continue to be amazed at how poor the Ricoh/Pentax >> marketing is. Case in point: >> >> Here is a page with 4 Limited lenses. Take a look at the Sample Images >> shown for each of the 4 lenses: >> http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/lens_cmp2/page04.html >> (the link goes to the 70mm f/2.4, but you can change the URL to >> page03, page02, page01 (or simply click the link for the other lenses >> on the page). All are uniformly BLAH. >> >> A better way to judge what a lens can do is to go to the Pentax Photo >> Gallery and click the "Cameras and Lenses" link in the upper right >> hand corner. Select the lens you want to look at (ignore the cameras, >> unless you want to limit your search to a particular body) and click >> the GO button. >> >> The images of the lenses themselves on the page are gorgeous. The >> sample images? Not so much. >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
