Originally posted by micromacro I understand that you support the company, but imagine it's not Pentax, just no-name some company. Would you agree with their rules of submitting images?
I already said I am not submitting an image -- I don't tend to submit images contests, full stop.
That said, I would have no issues submitting one of my landscape images to a company and using the rules that Ricoh has in place. I guess I don't feel like my images are worth a whole lot to anyone but me. I'm not making great art and giving up a single image doesn't feel like a big deal.
As for the "risk" involved with the submission, it feels quite over blown here. If I took a sunrise image of a farmer's field, or a lake, I just don't see someone consulting legal help to sue me or Ricoh (or whatever other hypothetical company was involved).
Regardless, we have established that some people feel comfortable submitting images and some don't. If you don't then the whole thing is settled. I just don't think this is as terrible or risk as some in this thread seem to imply.