Originally posted by Pioneer This is so amusing. I almost feel like I am back in high school again.
The minute someone expresses their own PERSONAL opinion of the fact that Ricoh decided that their name needed to be on the back of THEIR camera the mob erupts and races out equipped with pitchforks and rage to destroy them. The immaturity shown on this thread has nothing at all to do with LaurenOE's action. The immaturity is with the crowd that feels they must instantly leap up and shout down the few that do not agree.
It would appear that our right to FREELY express our personal opinion on the internet, and especially this forum, is not allowed unless that opinion matches that of the majority.
And, btw. Ricoh has never done me any favors. It is the other way around. By purchasing their product I am the one doing Ricoh a favor.
Exactly.
I don't hate Ricoh, I turned that corner months ago.
However, after owning the K3 for a few weeks, and working with the camera, I searched for places where I could find substantiation for Ricoh being on the back of the camera.
I can't find anything that is "Ricoh" in the K3.
No special menu system.
No special feature that is found on Ricoh cameras only.
No transplanted technology.
Every single thing about the K3 screams of K5 mark III.
Indeed, the K3 is exactly what I thought a K5 update would be, and why I am buying more than one K3 in the future.
The K3 is a Pentax, plain and simple.
Putting Ricoh on the back of only two "reserved" places on a camera warrants a contribution that Ricoh doesn't deserve.
We don't see Acura logos on the front, and a Honda logo on the back.
No other company would even think about doing something as odd as that.
But Ricoh did exactly that.
So Ricoh, in a fit of insecurity - since they did nothing but green light an existing product in the pipeline - decided to start to manipulate my product/brand perception.
I mean even *if* Ricoh did do something inside the K3 that was so revolutionary, why is there no Ricoh camera with the same "pixie dust"?
Why has the Ricoh GXR faded quietly into oblivion?
Why is the Ricoh GR not doing that well?
As it turns out, Ricoh is not that great of a camera company.
Their contribution to an existing Pentax product is little more than window dressing.
To put Ricoh branding on anything that existed in the Hoya pipeline is an embarrassment in my opinion.
So thinking through all of these issues, and looking down at the back of my camera, made me stop the dissonance and cover the embarrassing name up.
Sure it's probably immature. I can live with being immature, as youth is sometimes implied!
What I *am* looking forward to, is a fusion of what the K-01 and GXR could have been.
I will be happy to see Ricoh on the front and back of that camera.
In the mean time, they should remove the Ricoh from the back of the K5 mark III.
Last edited by LaurenOE; 11-20-2013 at 12:02 PM.