Joseph, you're certainly right. You will notice however that about 12 words into my message I've put IMVHO - In My Very Humble Opinion, and I meant just that.
My second guessing of these marketing people however many are there is based on the fact that the likes of Panasonic and Sony were not very well known in this market 7 or 10 years ago. Now Sony seems to be the third biggest manufacturer/seller and Panasonic has done wonders too. Pentax on the other hand does not demonstrate similar performance. No, I don't want to start a flame war. The sky is not falling and my, yours and everyone else's gear will still shoot straight. Nonetheless, to ignore these issues is pretty unwise in my eyes. After all, both you and I want to see Pentax keep selling their gear for many years to come but if they make marketing mistakes and those mistakes cost them dearly, we'd be in trouble, wouldn't we? Pentax appears to be successful in the direction of fashionable gear for the masses. This is very valid and very sensible move in the corporative/business sense. I don't belong to these crowds. So I state my (Very Humble) opinion. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > "We" are not the only market Pentax is selling to. If we were, the many > colored body parts chosen to order would be in Best Buy right now. But it > isn't. Star Wars was fun at first, but now it looks like it should be in an > OR, hot out of the sterilizer. > > "We" are, for the most part, looking what is best for "our" brand of > photography. There is no reason to denigrate the body or lens we don't want > to use, especially if we've never used it. > > Second guessing the 20 or 100 people at Pentax/Ricoh who have some amount of > experience at marketing is foolish, unless you are one of them. Those people > have the research, the charts with lines and arrows to consult. "We" just > have opinions. Which is our freedom. The freedom to voice "our" opinions > about "our" wants and needs to further the photographic trail we prefer to > take. > > Japanese translation needed for Pentax Japan. > > On Aug 21, 2012, at 20:41 , Boris Liberman wrote: > >> Boris wrote: >> Not to burst your bubble, Darren, but I am afraid you're quite wrong. IMVHO, >> this new camera is totally "me too" run of the mill effort from Pentax. They >> has few such cameras before and now they bring yet another one. I strongly >> doubt that being 4 mm FL at wide end it will have 4x sensor. More likely 7x >> sensor or 6x sensor so that it will turn out to be more earthly 24 mm or 28 >> mm on the wide end. >> >> Again, it seems to me like a big waste of time and effort on Pentax part. >> This market seems to be very much saturated by offerings from Panasonic, >> Canon and others so that to really penetrate it Pentax would have to sweat >> its marketing muscle, which as I was told here is not very strong. And >> obviously X-5 will have to be nothing short of outstanding to begin with. >> >> Diversity is good, but if you diversify between X-5, Q, WP series and K-01, >> you may have overstretched it... Ricoh has/had a series of very good compact >> cameras, why not to capitalize on that. Add to their well thought interface, >> ergonomics and excellent optics Pentax's WP know-how and you get yourself >> something that I think is easier to market than X-5... >> >> As of recently Pentax does not impress me. I hope that this autumn will >> bring better news than X-5 or Q... >> >> Boris >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- Boris -- 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.
