I have been critical of Ned - or possibly the policies he was handed. However with his retirement, Ricoh Pentax clearly has ownership and responsibility, now. I think that MAP was their idea - we should know for sure now. Now, that MAP (or MAD) is back - and after reading that B&H was trying to talk some sense into Pentax about their MAP pricing strategy, along with the resulting collapse of sales that Adam indicated, it will be clear whose policies they actually were. Also, the pricing of the new re-badged Tamron lens with its inflated price. So, it will be interesting to watch how the events unfold, to say the least.....
With respect to the new releases, its only been a year (minus a couple of weeks), on the Ricoh watch. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that this was the best they could muster, with the rest of the company working on the Ricoh inspired next great new releases. So, waiting and watching. Impress me! The one aspect that the new offering do provide is an enlarged family of K5 based models - K5, K5 II (two sticks), K30, K-01. So, there will be a rich set of 16MP models available in the future....
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