Originally posted by MRRiley My personal opinion is that all of the compact camera stuff (including the Q) should be moved under the Ricoh brand (where they already have a strong showing) and Pentax should be reserved for the DSLRs (befitting the origin of the name based on the "pentaprism).
That's an interesting idea and it's already a common practice for Japanese car manufacturers to have 2 product lines with different names. It might increase advertising costs for the combined Pentax/Ricoh, though.
I don't care which name they keep. We all think Pentax has more name recognition but I wouldn't call this forum an unbiased sample. Whichever name has the best recognition in their target markets would be best.