Where do you get that Ricoh is abandoning the Pentax brand? Because they haven't announced a full frame camera? Because the flashes don't cover a 24x36 frame?
Sheesh. It's the first update that the flashes have gotten in years, and it's a feature that no other brand offers. This is a shot across the bow of Canon and Nikon. The price is completely ridiculous, but I really don't see how this indicates abandonment of the brand. The full frame obsession is sickening, and blinds you to any positive thing that Ricoh does to enhance the brand. Because they don't do the one thing that you believe is the only thing that they can be competitive, you dismiss the entire brand as dead. I guess there is no harsher critic than a fan. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:14:27AM +0200, Dario Bonazza wrote: >> http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/08/27/ricoh-introduces-weather-resistant-flash-units?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_1 > > Very interesting. That weather sealing is a very nice features. > >> >> http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/08/27/ricoh-announces-hd-update-to-pentax-limited-primes-15mm-f4-21mm-f32-35mm-f28-macro-40mm-f28-70mm-f24?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_0 > > Of course, right after I finally buy a DA35 macro, they come out with an > upgraded one. > > It's really a shame that Ricoh is abandoning Pentax, and that Pentax as a > brand is > doomed. Imagine the cool stuff we'd be getting if they actually cared about > pentax. Did you notice that the lenses are all DA, and flashes aren't even > full > frame flashes? Yet more proof that Pentax is doomed. > >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
