I didn't say this in so many words, but I did intimate that Ricoh
marketing tried to learn everything they could from Pentax marketing,
and unfortunately did.
On 11/27/2020 4:18 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Saw this comment on the fb Pentaxians group:
Their commitment to draining the enthusiasm for this hotly-anticipated camera
can only be described as unswerving.
In reference to this:
https://pentaxofficial.com/en/7313/
More of the series at:
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/explore/new_aps-c_dslr/
The marketing on the K-3 iii not only misses the target, but they brought a
suction tipped arrow to a skeet range, put it in a child’s trebuchet,
blindfolded themselves and spun around three times before firing it.
Somebody needs to sit Wakashiro down and explain to him that nobody looking to
buy a new camera cares, at all about where the logo is (though they *might*
care a little that the pentaprism shell protrudes less past the mount). When
people talk about what they want in a new Pentax, most of it seems to be better
autofocus, and more autofocus points. It is commendable that they want to
improve the user experience, but a lot of people have more than one Pentax DSLR
and moving everything around from one model to another is constantly
frustrating. Calling it a K-3 when all it shares with the previous two K-3s is
the sensor size and the name is also ridiculous.
If I’m in the mood to be generous, I can see that want people to understand
that their goal is to make the act of taking photos to be fun and enjoyable,
but just using google translate, rather than have a native speaker in the
language of the majority of their customers is taking the shotgun they should
have used at the skeet range and pointing it squarely at their foot.
Wakashiro’s “Product Stories” might be eloquent and evocative in Japanese, but
the translation comes across as “we don’t care about performance so we’re
putting all of our efforts into trivial stuff you don’t care about to appeal to
people that would rather use an iPhone anyways.
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