The 645D viewfinder is brilliant.
DagT
Den 2. juli 2011 kl. 02.44 skrev Steven Desjardins:
The 645 did have an awesome viewfinder, however.
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote:
On 7/1/11 5:31 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Good as my LX, Mark?
Dunno. I've
Ricoh has a great big honking ultra-boring
photocopier/printer/office-widget business. Much like Canon I guess.
Only in the case of Ricoh, it's pretty obvious that the
office-products is at the center and the camera thing is a bag on the
side. I think adding Pentax makes all sorts of sense for
Somebody here some years ago claimed that a certain brand of copier
had a Pentax 50mm inside as the taking lens.
Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote:
Ricoh has a great big honking ultra-boring
photocopier/printer/office-widget business. Much
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:35 -0700, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com
wrote:
Ricoh has a great big honking ultra-boring
photocopier/printer/office-widget business. Much like Canon I guess.
Only in the case of Ricoh, it's pretty obvious that the
office-products is at the center and the camera thing
On Jun 30, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Miserere wrote:
I'm not even joking!
http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2011/06/ricoh-buying-pentax-according-to-reuters-japan-sources.html
If true...wow
If Godfrey won't go to Pentax
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On Jun 30, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Miserere wrote:
I'm not even joking!
http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2011/06/ricoh-buying-pentax-according-to-reuters-japan-sources.html
If true...wow
If Godfrey won't go to Pentax
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:35:02AM -0400, Miserere wrote:
I'm not even joking!
http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2011/06/ricoh-buying-pentax-according-to-reuters-japan-sources.html
If true...wow
I assume this is good news for Pentax users?
Ricoh probably care a bit more about cameras
Ricoh left the SLR business years ago. I really hate to say this but,
this looks too much Konica buying up Minolta, and we all know how that
turned out. Minolta users were lucky that Sony was looking to enter the
DSLR market.
If Hoya wasn't big enough to keep Pentax a going concern, how the
Seems to be a done deal by the Hoya press release. I just hope it's
not bad news for Ricoh owners. That would be an annoyance.
On Thursday, June 30, 2011, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
Ricoh left the SLR business years ago. I really hate to say this but, this
looks too much
, 2011 12:23 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax
Seems to be a done deal by the Hoya press release. I just hope it's
not bad news for Ricoh owners. That would be an annoyance.
On Thursday, June 30, 2011, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote
DiGiorgi
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 12:23 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax
Seems to be a done deal by the Hoya press release. I just hope it's
not bad news for Ricoh owners. That would be an annoyance.
On Thursday, June 30, 2011, P. J. Alling
Does this mean the K-r K-5 would look like this...?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bongmanayon/5163816994/
:-)
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not even joking!
Ha, Godfrey is going to be a Pentaxian again :-)
http://www.ricoh.com/release/2011/0701_1.html
On completion of the Acquisition, Ricoh will begin to use the PENTAX brand
name for some of its digital camera products,
DagT
Does this mean the K-r K-5 would look like this...?
And through no effort on my part. :-)
On Friday, July 1, 2011, DagT li...@thrane.name wrote:
Ha, Godfrey is going to be a Pentaxian again :-)
http://www.ricoh.com/release/2011/0701_1.html
On completion of the Acquisition, Ricoh will begin to use the PENTAX brand
name for some of its
John Celio wrote:
Can anyone tell for certain if Hoya is keeping Pentax's medical division for
themselves?
Damn - there go the Pentax endoscope jokes...
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I hope it's true. That would be a plus. Ricoh is better at mass marketing than
Hoya, and the Pentax and Ricoh equipment fit together nicely as a complete line.
Paul
On Jul 1, 2011, at 1:35 AM, Miserere wrote:
I'm not even joking!
On Jul 1, 2011, at 2:45 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Ricoh left the SLR business years ago. I really hate to say this but, this
looks too much Konica buying up Minolta, and we all know how that turned out.
Minolta users were lucky that Sony was looking to enter the DSLR market.
If Hoya
On Jul 1, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Seems to be a done deal by the Hoya press release. I just hope it's
not bad news for Ricoh owners. That would be an annoyance.
It would be a much bigger annoyance in these parts if it were bad news for
Pentax owners, but I assume it will be
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Does this mean the K-r K-5 would look like this...?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bongmanayon/5163816994/
Heh :)
I'm assuming all new lenses are going to get stuck on the AF drive too...
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Well, Godfrey has made us aware of Ricoh's innovative approach to
mirrorless systems and Pentax has optical expertise. And, at least
from my POV, Pentax has a bigger reputation. How big is Ricoh as a
company? It will definitely focus Pentax on photography as long as
the combination has enough
So will the new badge be Rictax or Pentoh?
Sent from my iPod
On 2011-07-01, at 1:35 AM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not even joking!
http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2011/06/ricoh-buying-pentax-according-to-reuters-japan-sources.html
If true...wow
—M.
It does make me wonder about Pentax's EVIL/MILC/Whatever plans. I
wonder if they will continue with the APS-C K mount version or combine
efforts with and produce a K mount module.
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
So will the new badge be Rictax or
As long as he doesn't start a new religion and proclaims himself its
supreme prophet, I am fine with that...
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
If Godfrey won't go to Pentax
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Ricoh did get out of the SLR business during the AF era (to some
extent, they actually continued to sell MF film SLR's until recently,
but the body was a Cosina) although they did have a longtime presence
in the high-end compact side of things with their GR compacts (which
are simply awesome). But
It probably means both that we'll see a Q-mount module for the GXR and
that we won't see a Pentax APS-C mirrorless camera.
-Adam
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote:
It does make me wonder about Pentax's EVIL/MILC/Whatever plans. I
wonder if they will
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Seems to be a done deal by the Hoya press release. I just hope it's
not bad news for Ricoh owners. That would be an annoyance.
It would be a much bigger annoyance in these parts if it were bad news for
Pentax
Oh Boris, I already am the prophet for a new religion. Have I never
spoken here of the Church of the Magnetic Monopole? CMM's been around
for twenty years or more, I've been evangelizing for years ... !!
]'-) LOL! or is that Mwah Hah Hah! ]:-)
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Boris Liberman
Suaveh...
2011/7/1 Miserere miser...@gmail.com:
I'm not even joking!
http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2011/06/ricoh-buying-pentax-according-to-reuters-japan-sources.html
If true...wow
—M.
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I'm voting for Pentho, since who would want a new tax on their ric?
On 7/1/2011 7:44 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
So will the new badge be Rictax or Pentoh?
Sent from my iPod
On 2011-07-01, at 1:35 AM, Misereremiser...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not even joking!
Maybe we'll see a K mount module for the GRX, and won't that look silly...
On 7/1/2011 9:58 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
It probably means both that we'll see a Q-mount module for the GXR and
that we won't see a Pentax APS-C mirrorless camera.
-Adam
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Steven
On 01/07/2011 12:45 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Ricoh left the SLR business years ago. I really hate to say this but,
this looks too much Konica buying up Minolta, and we all know how that
turned out. Minolta users were lucky that Sony was looking to enter the
DSLR market.
If Hoya wasn't big enough
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not even joking!
http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2011/06/ricoh-buying-pentax-according-to-reuters-japan-sources.html
If true...wow
Dammit, I'm going to have to snip off that infernal extra pin from all
my new lenses.
It would be an annoyance if it turns out to be bad news for Pentax
owners as well.
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
Seems to be a done deal by the Hoya press release. I just hope it's
not bad news for Ricoh owners. That would be an annoyance.
On Thursday, June 30, 2011, P. J. Alling
From: John Celio
Can anyone tell for certain if Hoya is keeping Pentax's medical division for
themselves? I'm pretty sure that's a big source of Pentax's revenue, and it
would really suck if they lost it.
John
Hoya is almost certainly keeping the medical division. They originally
bought
I agree with Bill. Not only is ricoh a better fit, Ricoh is a general tech
company with money to burn.
On photography: They also tend to concentrate on niche markets and come with
original solutions. This is very Pentax imo. And their photo business is very
complimentary with Pentax
On 1 July 2011 12:04, Thib pentaxl...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Bill. Not only is ricoh a better fit, Ricoh is a general tech
company with money to burn.
Unlike Pentaxians, who hold on to their pesos like they're a zombie antidote.
—M.
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On 01/07/2011 10:33 AM, Miserere wrote:
On 1 July 2011 12:04, Thibpentaxl...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Bill. Not only is ricoh a better fit, Ricoh is a general tech
company with money to burn.
Unlike Pentaxians, who hold on to their pesos like they're a zombie antidote.
Well, Hoya
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:58:28AM -0400, Adam Maas wrote:
It probably means both that we'll see a Q-mount module for the GXR and
that we won't see a Pentax APS-C mirrorless camera.
-Adam
I wouldn't expect to see any short-term changes to Pentax's plans.
If, as has been assumed, the
On 7/1/2011 1:07 PM, William Robb wrote:
On 01/07/2011 10:33 AM, Miserere wrote:
On 1 July 2011 12:04, Thibpentaxl...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Bill. Not only is ricoh a better fit, Ricoh is a
general tech company with money to burn.
Unlike Pentaxians, who hold on to their pesos like
On 01/07/2011 11:18 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Oh, I fully expect to be rewarded with humiliation
You haven't bought much gear lately, have you
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Unlike Pentaxians, who hold on to their pesos like they're a zombie antidote.
Must eat brains . . .
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 July 2011 12:04, Thib pentaxl...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Bill. Not only is ricoh a better fit, Ricoh is a general
Ah, Bill, you silver tongued devil. I'll never drop another bar of
soap without thinking of you. OTOH . . .
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:07 PM, William Robb
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On 01/07/2011 10:33 AM, Miserere wrote:
On 1 July 2011 12:04, Thibpentaxl...@gmail.com wrote:
I
On Jul 1, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net
wrote:
Seems to be a done deal by the Hoya press release. I just hope it's
not bad news for Ricoh owners. That would be an annoyance.
It would be a much bigger
Wow! Wow! Wow! Sure hope this works out for everyone! Cheers, Christine
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Subject: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax
I'm not even joking!
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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax
On 1 July 2011 12:04, Thib pentaxl...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Bill. Not only is ricoh
I'm somewhat hopeful about this. The traditional digital market
(How's that, huh) of PS and DSLRs is being eroded in two ways:
cellphones will increasingly replace the PS and mirrorless will cut
into the DSLRs. Ricoh and Pentax could make a pretty good mirrorless
body with Pentax optics.
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On 7/1/2011 1:20 PM, William Robb wrote:
On 01/07/2011 11:18 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Oh, I fully expect to be rewarded with humiliation
You haven't bought much gear lately, have you
Actually not, I have budgetary issues, I bought the K20D almost two
years ago, my last major
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
It will be very interesting to see where this goes. I do hope it's a
positive for everyone ... including the medical products market!
And if it isn't, I can pull a Godfrey and switch to Nikon, or whatever system
catches my
Anyone seen a decent electronically produced image in a mirrorless viewfinder?
Jack
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote:
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Subject: Re: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax
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Anyone seen a decent electronically produced image in a mirrorless viewfinder
On 01/07/2011 12:39 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Anyone seen a decent electronically produced image in a mirrorless viewfinder?
Nope, they still Hoover. I was so attracted to that little Fuji
rangefinder until I turned on the electronic viewfinder.
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On 01/07/2011 12:39 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Anyone seen a decent electronically produced image in a mirrorless
viewfinder?
Nope, they still Hoover. I was so attracted to that little Fuji
rangefinder until I turned on the electronic viewfinder.
William Robb
EVFs will get better as long as
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote:
EVFs will get better as long as early adopters continue to fund the
research. It's no different to anything else, like sensors and so on, that
were crap to start with, but have continued to improve. EVFs however have a
long way
William Robb wrote:
On 01/07/2011 12:39 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Anyone seen a decent electronically produced image in a mirrorless
viewfinder?
Nope, they still Hoover. I was so attracted to that little Fuji
rangefinder until I turned on the electronic viewfinder.
Know what's *really* good?
Good as my LX, Mark?
Jack
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote:
From: Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com
Subject: Re: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 1:30 PM
William Robb wrote:
On 01/07
On 7/1/2011 4:30 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
William Robb wrote:
On 01/07/2011 12:39 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Anyone seen a decent electronically produced image in a mirrorless viewfinder?
Nope, they still Hoover. I was so attracted to that little Fuji
rangefinder until I turned on the electronic
On 2011-07-01 05:27 , Steven Desjardins wrote:
How big is Ricoh as a
company?
$25 billion revenue last fiscal year
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Hoya is keeping the Pentax Medical Division: they feel it really
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G. Back to lurking.
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Yeah, but now they'll be the butt of all these jokes.
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Hoya is keeping the Pentax Medical Division: they feel it really delivers in
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Hoya is keeping the Pentax Medical Division: they feel it really delivers in
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Mark!
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I went over to Ned's blog to see if he had anything to say about the
acquisition. Until a couple of hours ago he didn't but he had posted a bunch of
photos taken with the DA35 macro. The bastard. That lens has been on my
wishlist for a couple of years now, ever since I started going on photo
On 2 July 2011 04:30, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote:
William Robb wrote:
On 01/07/2011 12:39 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Anyone seen a decent electronically produced image in a mirrorless
viewfinder?
Nope, they still Hoover. I was so attracted to that little Fuji
rangefinder until I
On 7/1/11 5:31 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Good as my LX, Mark?
Dunno. I've never owned an LX. But the image quality of the 25-megapixel
Sony is better than my old Pentax 645.
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On 01/07/2011 5:48 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Until a couple of hours ago he didn't but he had posted a bunch of photos taken
with the DA35 macro. The bastard. That lens has been on my wishlist for a
couple of years now
Yeah, it's a nice lens. I like the pictures from the 31 more, but I like
The 35 macro is in my bh wish list as well. Cheers. Christine
On Jul 1, 2011, at 7:11 PM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/07/2011 5:48 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Until a couple of hours ago he didn't but he had posted a bunch of photos
taken with the DA35 macro. The
The 645 did have an awesome viewfinder, however.
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote:
On 7/1/11 5:31 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Good as my LX, Mark?
Dunno. I've never owned an LX. But the image quality of the 25-megapixel
Sony is better than my old Pentax 645.
Subject: Re: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 5:03 PM
On 7/1/11 5:31 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Good as my LX, Mark?
Dunno. I've never owned an LX. But the image quality of the
25-megapixel Sony is better than my old Pentax
Roberts m...@robertstech.com
Subject: Re: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 5:03 PM
On 7/1/11 5:31 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Good as my LX, Mark?
Dunno. I've never owned an LX. But the image quality of the
25-megapixel Sony
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Peter Loveday pe...@loveday.org wrote:
The sky isn't falling.
This is the PDML. The sky is _always_ falling.
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