Yet more brand negativity, biz?
Originally posted by biz-engineer It's easy, Ricoh play cat and mouse with customers, this is annoying. They put lenses in a roadmap, advertise it, show mockup of lenses, and then withdraw, which is fooling customers in their buying decision.
They're not playing cat and mouse. You're choosing to view it that way. Road maps are aspirational. Markets and circumstances change. That's not unique to Ricoh.
Originally posted by biz-engineer Other companies aren't doing that. Nikon published a roadmap and so far they stick to it , they did release all the lenses they have put in their 2019 roadmap. Canon did not provide a roadmap but their released lenses without preliminary teasing.
Then switch to Nikon or Canon. In fact, you've already stated in another thread that you're buying a Nikon Z6 or Z7 and a trio of lenses soon. That's great. But please stop dragging Ricoh / Pentax down in your posts. With respect, it's becoming very tiresome.
Originally posted by biz-engineer What's the deal with ILC. ILC means that you invest tons of money into a lens system with proprietary lens mount, you cannot use those lenses on other brands on cameras with full features (AF etc), hoping that as camera technology improves but keep the same proprietary lens mount you'll be able to keep using your lens investment for many years to come. Now if the camera provider cut the product line, all the investment you made in lenses is wasted, if that's 10 000 euros, that's 10 000 euros down the drain if you have to invest again into another system having a different and incompatible lens mount. So, I know that businesses run by the money, but fooling customers is legal but not ethical, especially not ethical management behaviour from a large group that can absorb the losses of a tiny business. We are small customers, yet spend as much money into lenses as buying a car. I can tell you, if a train company was teased with the next model of train and then supplier withdraw after the railway company built the rail line, the rail company would sue the train manufacturer at the court! If you are an ethical company, you don't show the carrot (future lenses) in front of the nose of customers so that they buy cameras, and then make the carrot disappear...that's not ethical.
Rather than getting into discussion on the above, I'll dispense my unsolicited advice:
Don't buy any product from any manufacturer based on hopes, rumours, aspirations, even promises, for the future. Only buy it if it does everything you want right now. Or, buy it on the understanding that it may never do anything more than it was capable of the day that you bought it.
Caveat emptor
I can already see where this thread is going, biz, so I'm closing it.