On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:35 -0700, "Tim Bray" <tb...@textuality.com> wrote: > Ricoh has a great big honking ultra-boring > photocopier/printer/office-widget business. Much like Canon I guess. > Only in the case of Ricoh, it's pretty obvious that the > office-products is at the center and the camera thing is a bag on the > side. I think adding Pentax makes all sorts of sense for them. > > Also there are some plausible synergies between R and P. > - Willingness to do quirky non-mainstream things > - Better-than-average ergonomics
In the Australian context, I'm wondering what this all means for the Pentax brand in Australia. Pentax doesn't have a branch in Oz and C R Kennedy has been the local distributor for over 30 years. Ricoh/Tasco does have a local branch so I'm wondering if we're about to see a change in the distribution arrangements and whether that might mean a better presence of Pentax with major retailers. For example, I was at a local mall yesterday and looking in the window of a Kodak Express store (a very 'consumer orientated' operation) and there among the Nikons and Canons was a Ricoh GXR in the window. I've never seen any Pentax in that store. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/. > > -T > > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:16 AM, DagT <li...@thrane.name> wrote: > > The 645D viewfinder is brilliant. > > > > DagT > > > > Den 2. juli 2011 kl. 02.44 skrev Steven Desjardins: > > > >> The 645 did have an awesome viewfinder, however. > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > >>> On 7/1/11 5:31 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Good as my LX, Mark? > >>> > >>> Dunno. I've never owned an LX. But the image quality of the 25-megapixel > >>> Sony is better than my old Pentax 645. > > > > -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- 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.
