On 12/22/2014 3:49 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
Quoting Malcolm Smith <rrve...@virginmedia.com>:
Brian Walters wrote:
Well, Pentax isn't a manufacturer any more - it's just a brand owned by
Ricoh.
It's much the same as Panasonic putting Lumix on its cameras.
OK, but I understood that Pentax were keeping the brand name on the
DSLRs.
Not having a K5 of any model, I'm fairly sure even the very last ones
are
Pentax branded all over, and as I said, the first K3's (pre-release
models)
were also branded Pentax all over. Someone decided that the Ricoh
brand name
would now appear on the DSLRs as well. Just an observation.
It's possible that someone at Ricoh has decided that dual branding
might not be a good idea after all. 'Ricoh' doesn't appear on the
rear of the latest models (K-S1, Q-S1 and 645Z) - Just 'Pentax' on the
front.
I read somewhere that Ricoh thought that the Ricoh brand was the premium
brand for SLR's when compared with Pentax, the rest of the world thought
otherwise.
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