Been away for some days and read about 30 last pages of this thread. IMHO Ricoh has given customers who would buy DA Limited lenses a choice - all primes or a zoom and a prime at either end. Prime shooters have the entire zoom range covered with a bit of foot zooming. Price won't matter to them since they won't buy it. Zoom shooters (possibly a larger group) save some money. Short zoom length won't matter to them because an additional prime at either end covers 15 - 70 (everyone has a fast 50). People who don't buy limited won't care anyway whether their daughters inherit their lenses. Ricoh has been pretty
shrewd, if you ask me.
They've also stimulated a firestorm thread with a
sexy product introduction rather than something negative like pricing or a website error. 775 Replies and accusations of ad hominem attacks, plus a "Calm Down" entry from a Mod. Sheesh.
And it is Pentaxy, to boot. Who says Ricoh killed the brand? - they're actually
living the brand!
I'll have to rethink my entire approach to the gear / image production mix, probably sell most of my stuff and actually take more photographs - but I think I'm in for K3 + 20~40. Black. Should work out on the K-01 also.
And I'll make a special Album for New York.