Re: Ricoh Pentax follies...

[Mark C]

WRT to the Q system - I think it was discontinued in the US market 
though residual inventory is still available - B has some lenses and 
accessories, no new S1 bodies though. I think the system is still 
supported in Japan, so it makes sense it would be on the Ricoh Japan site.


On the lens road map from earlier this year there are no new Q mount 
lenses yet to be released - the macro lens that was there for some time 
has disappeared.  My guess is the Q's long term fate is not good. That's 
unfortunate because it is a nifty little system.


Mark

P. J. Alling wrote:
Well, maybe not follies, however on a recent visit to the 
ricoh-imaging web site to download a manual, and being unable to do 
that from the North American US site due to construction, I visited 
the Japan English site, and did my business there.


I also noticed that the Q line seems to be back as a product.  So I 
checked the US site, where it isn't but the K-50 is now listed a 
current product again.  This kind of thing begins to make one wonder, 
which particular band of inmates is running which particular asylum.





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Re: Ricoh Pentax follies...

[Zos Xavius]

The copier division is currently running Pentax in North America. They
consolidated the territories. Dark times.

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:50 PM, P. J. Alling
 wrote:
> Well, maybe not follies, however on a recent visit to the ricoh-imaging web
> site to download a manual, and being unable to do that from the North
> American US site due to construction, I visited the Japan English site, and
> did my business there.
>
> I also noticed that the Q line seems to be back as a product.  So I checked
> the US site, where it isn't but the K-50 is now listed a current product
> again.  This kind of thing begins to make one wonder, which particular band
> of inmates is running which particular asylum.
>
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Re: Ricoh Pentax follies...

[Stanley Halpin]

> On Aug 15, 2017, at 12:50 PM, P. J. Alling  wrote:
> 
> Well, maybe not follies, however on a recent visit to the ricoh-imaging web 
> site to download a manual, and being unable to do that from the North 
> American US site due to construction, I visited the Japan English site, and 
> did my business there….

I don’t know about the construction notice, I haven’t seen that. But at least 
since March-April 2016 all manuals have been on the .jp site. And none of the 
ones I have looked for have been on the U.S. site.
[WG-III, WG-5, WG-M1, K-3, K-01, K-1, 645Z]

stan


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Ricoh Pentax follies...

[P. J. Alling]

Well, maybe not follies, however on a recent visit to the ricoh-imaging 
web site to download a manual, and being unable to do that from the 
North American US site due to construction, I visited the Japan English 
site, and did my business there.


I also noticed that the Q line seems to be back as a product.  So I 
checked the US site, where it isn't but the K-50 is now listed a current 
product again.  This kind of thing begins to make one wonder, which 
particular band of inmates is running which particular asylum.


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