Originally posted by ElJamoquio That's what I did for two years.
We've passed the three year anniversary though. Not a super-huge delay in the grand scheme but if nothing great comes out at Photokina I'm blaming Ricoh, not Hoya.
You passed the three year anniversary; Pentax Ricoh/Ricoh Imaging definitely didn't
Pentax Ricoh Company started on 1st October 2011.
And they had quite a few great products: GR, K-3, 645Z, 1.4x RC...
Originally posted by Class A I don't think it is too late either.
I just meant to say that they are too late to offer the first affordable, smallish FF DSLR. That train has left.
If they really don't have more to show at Photokina this year than a new Q and some 645Z stuff, I'll start stop caring.
My apologies, I misinterpreted your post.
I agree it would be helpful, but stealing the show? No, not Pentax, not with a strong marketing. Anyway, it's not my style to mull over missed trains. What was, was - the question is what's next? (with a bit of mid-term thinking).
I'd guess catching that train meant launching a sub-par "full frame", fall behind in APS-C and hurting the 645 line, too.
We will see more than that at Photokina, I'm quite sure of it
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Originally posted by IchabodCrane On what date will it no longer be possible to blame Hoya?
We should blame Hoya for that which can be attributed to Hoya; we should not blame Ricoh for things that happened before they took over, nor for the need to fix things.
"Year after year, exhibition after exhibition" - that wasn't Ricoh Imaging, they only had one Photokina so far, and it was too early to do anything. This Photokina might still be too early for a "full frame" product line, so it would make only two editions. By the third we should have a pretty good idea what's up.