Pentax Forums has a presence on Facebook, although there’s possibly more traffic brought back here by reference to articles and reviews etc than from postings there. I don’t recall seeing anything on Instagram. On the other hand, there are many Pentax postings on Flickr (and possibly other general photo-sharing sites, but Flickr’s the only one I inhabit). FB and Instagram compress the life out of many photos, I find, so I don’t post many of my photos there. Paradoxically, I find Flickr’s app to do the same (although the web version doesn’t), but I digress.
Subjectively, I find the discussions here to be less combative than previously, which may have excluded some people whose personal style suited that sort of debate (self-exclusion, as well as banning
) but I think they’re more informative, overall.
As said elsewhere, we used to have a number of people complaining about the lack of a 35mm full-frame body (and some of those continually talking up other brands that had one or more such) and thankfully most of the more gratuitous commentary in that vein seems to have abated recently. The lack of a MILC body doesn’t seem to generate as much in response, these days – maybe the FF debate exhausted many of us.
Of more concern is what I perceive to be the age profile here. While grey hair does generally denote experience, and occasionally wisdom, more fresh voices would be welcome. Still, vinyl records and film photography seem to have re-established themselves among younger groups, so maybe DSLRs will do likewise. One can only live in hope.