Pentax is a fairly small company when compared to Canon and Nikon, even with its acquisition by Hoya. We all know how hard it is to get new lenses. They’re always back ordered. You don’t find Pentax DSLD in Costco, Wall mart, Circuit City, Best Buy, and most of the other electronic chains. I admire that as they don’t bring the value of their products down by selling them at variety stores instead of camera specialty stores. Pentax is all about quality and innovation. The fact that you are reading this attest that you already know that.
I a member of all the Pentax Forums I know of, visit all known Blogs on Pentax, and most everywhere I go, I hear Pentaxians complaining about the lack of lenses, after-market equipment, books and literature about Pentax, etc,. If you own a Nikon or Canon, the market is saturated. You can find anything and everything on these cameras.
I purchase a K10D back around December 2006. I couldn’t find any books on it, other than the OEM manual, which was ambiguous and seemed to have been translated directly from Japanese to English, by a Japanese person. I have been in photography for all my life, and perhaps I don’t even need a “how-to” book. After all it’s all about shutter speed, aperture and media sensibility. That isn’t much different than the 35mm SLR cameras. Still, I struggled reading the manual, experienced with the camera and finally learned everything there was to know about it. A lot of what I learned wasn’t in the manual. A lot of what I learned is used everyday. Sure, you can set the camera where everything is done for you automatically by the camera.
Since there isn’t much after market anything for Pentax, I wrote a book called Pentax K10D “Everything you need to know …and then some”. I have received many favorable reviews and it is selling surprisingly well.
OK1000 Pentax Blog: The K10D Book, a good companion to the Pentax K10D Pentax K10D blog: yvon bourque
I publish the book myself, and I won’t get rich anytime soon.
Here is my uncertainty. I have been accused of spamming before and I am not sure that what I do is spamming. This is a Pentax only forum, and therefore people bring everything they find to the attention of others. They send them to websites selling camera, lenses, interchangeable screens, etc. I present a book for the Pentax DSLR only and since you can hardly find anything about Pentax, I think I am helping other Pentaxians, especially the newbies and amateurs. I have seen people complaining about the lack of books for Pentax and the very same people complaining about their perception of me spamming my book. I can really understand that if someone posts a commercial to purchase a Nikon or Canon on a Pentax site; that’s spamming. How else can one let everyone in the Pentax world, know about a good tool to help them?
I would really like to have your opinion.