Quote: I believe that when the FF is out the leak of costumers will decrease,
There will always be customers leaving Pentax and customers coming to Pentax, the actual idea of a "leak" assume that more leave than come, and that is a very suspect assumption. Most of the leak is from the high end, most of the customers switching or becoming Pentax users for the first time is in the low end and the 645z. Straight law of economics, the low end is much larger than the high end. SO if Pentax loses 10% of it's high end customers and gains 10% of it;s low end customers, it's gaining way more than it's losing. As well many of that new 10% coming in both K30s and K-50s will migrate up to K-3 type bodies and purchase some high quality glass.
This is all assumptions and we have no way of knowing if any of it is true... but the my point is, there are more reasons for thinking Pentax is doing really well, than there are for thinking they've lost 50% of their sales since Rich took over and are doing poorly. You can make up any scenario you want about what's happening, but it's all garbage unless based on some solid facts. None of the above is anything other than garbage, my own analysis as well, I guess the difference is I know mine is garbage. Some people seem to believe their garbage is fact. All we know is that Ricoh made money, and that though the division Pentax is in for accounting purposes lost money, they lost money on the sale of a clothing division and it probably had nothing to do with Pentax. That doesn't equate to "Pentax is losing market share", or "Pentax is losing money.", or "Pentax isn't profitable" or "Pentax is poorly managed". It could just s easily mean, "Pentax is gaining market share". or " the value of Pentax's overall revenue increased", or "Pentax is picking up new customers but not fast enough to increase market share" It could mean any or all of those things and a bunch more possible conclusions or it could mean none of them.
All it means is, Pentax didn't make enough money to cover the write down Ricoh took on the clothing division it sold, and it's revenue increase (if any) wasn't enough to make up for the lost revenue from the clothing division for the last quarter. Anything else is speculation.