I'm not saying the sky is falling. I'm just being realistic. Ricoh
doesn't seem to be any better at marketing than Pentax was. More
importantly they don;t actually seem to have any allegiance to high end
Cameras as a product. For Pentax cameras and lenses were the heart and
soul of the company, even though it wasn't the primary profit center.
It defined what Pentax was. Ricoh simply stopped making SLRs one day,
for them it was no biggie. That worries me a bit.
You bring up the example of GM and Cadillac, I think a better model is
GM and SAAB. SAAB made a car with some unique technologies, a very
quirky body style, and owned a couple of factories, and a design house,
that designed SAABs. SAABs were something of an acquired taste, but
they were relatively unique. GM bought SAAB, integrated them into their
European operations so completely that SAAB simply ceased to exist. The
unique product became just another high end Opel. GM decided to sell
off SAAB after failing to make the mark profitable, but all the new
buyer got was a couple of factories that were now tooled to make high
end Opels and a name.
On 9/21/2013 8:45 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Sep 21, 2013, at 2:42 AM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I'm going to add this comment here, having perused the rest of the
thread.
I find it a little amusing that people on this list keep referring to Pentax
dosing something, (that includes me by the way). Pentax isn't going to do
anything. Pentax no longer exists.
That's like saying Cadillac doesn't exist because it's a brand of General
Motors. You probably don't remember, but Pentax was once a brand of Asahi. The
sky isn't falling.
Paul
There isn't even a Pentax division of Ricoh anymore. All we can hope is that
Ricoh, designs builds and markets K mount cameras a little smarter than Pentax
and then Hoya did, though history doesn't offer a lot of hope there.
Ricoh seems to think that their own brand is the prestige photographic brand
compared with Pentax and they've made a conscious effort to make Pentax a
secondary brand. Unfortunately, I don't think this bodes all that well for the
future, it seems like a bad marketing decision. I've seen a lot of those from
Pentax over the years, I suppose that it's good to see that Ricoh has decided
to carry on at least some of Pentax's traditions.
On 9/20/2013 5:12 AM, Tanya Love wrote:
But, K3 - October.
That's all I'm saying... :-)
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