On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:27:38PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > I believe Larry was just being an ass, mocking those of us who do > want a full-frame DSLR from Pentax.
I wasn't *just* being an ass, I was also being humorous. And I was not mocking people who want a Pentax with a 24x36 sensor, I am strongly in that camp myself. I was mocking those who treat any announcement that isn't an upcoming full frame DSLR as tangible proof that Pentax as a brand is doomed, and anyone who uses Pentax cameras will shortly be consigned to the dustbin of irrelevance. > > On 8/27/2013 6:47 PM, David Parsons wrote: > >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. > > > > > > > > -- > 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.
