[MarkJerling]

I've seen advice that blacking out brand makes camera less daunting to people when doing street photography. But putting a battery grip on would kind of defeat that concept.

True! It looked pretty impressive with its battery grip on.

[filoxophy]

I've seen advice that blacking out brand makes camera less daunting to people when doing street photography. But putting a battery grip on would kind of defeat that concept.

Well Ricoh has the cam for you--the new Pentax K-3 Prestige Edition! (See the home page.)

[Tsuken]

Should've gone to specsavers!

(That'll probably only make sense to those from the uk, but yes, I can confirm specsavers actively promote Pentax lenses)

Specsavers here (Australia) use Pentax lenses too, and the name is fairly obvious

[Nakedgun]

Was at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, today, and I looked, but did not see another Pentax. My wife and I carried ours proudly. Of course, I could not look at every single camera up close, so I may have missed one. One fellow had me take a shot of his family with a Nikon that felt light and cheap (didn't look at the model) and I watched a Canon user who didn't know how to turn off his auto-flash function say "Oh, well," and move on.

[Pepe Le Pew]

Was at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, today, and I looked, but did not see another Pentax. My wife and I carried ours proudly. Of course, I could not look at every single camera up close, so I may have missed one. One fellow had me take a shot of his family with a Nikon that felt light and cheap (didn't look at the model) and I watched a Canon user who didn't know how to turn off his auto-flash function say "Oh, well," and move on.

Canon user just made my day

[clockwork247]

Canon user just made my day

tons of people sell entry level nikon/canon on CL, they think the camera makes the picture... then they realized their entry level camera + kitlens makes worst picture than their cellphone...

[karro]

entry level camera + kitlens makes worst picture

I sort of read it as "entry level camera + kittens" and thought - those murderous CaNikon BASTARDS!!1!

[abmj]

... those murderous CaNikon BASTARDS!!

"They killed Kenny!!"

[Pepe Le Pew]

I was there with my new q10. Wished I had the slr when it started to rain tho.

Was their all 3 days....... My brother brought his D90 with him........ Kinda upset he couldn't get to use it

[Alizarine]

it's easier to put the Q in a ziplock than a D90 in a dicapac

with a k-30 and wr kit lens (no kittens here! Lol) the question ain't the cam in the rain but if the photog can handle wearing waterlogged clothes!

[Pepe Le Pew]

it's easier to put the Q in a ziplock than a D90 in a dicapac

with a k-30 and wr kit lens (no kittens here! Lol) the question ain't the cam in the rain but if the photog can handle wearing waterlogged clothes!

HD 55-300 lense

[Vitalii]

the beginning of the end...) for few month i wrote that we`ve got any/very few pentax lenses in our shops in innsbruck, austria sooo... ... ... today i was told that we are done with pentax, there will be final sale in few weeks, and then pentax will be sold only for order - which means nothing on stock, and ordering time from few days till few weeks - in short, no selling possibility at all. And we were one of the last who got pentax.) i hope the distributor in europe saved enought money for themselves with their shitty merchendising company because i won`t be able to sell pentax cameras any more.

[MarkJerling]

the beginning of the end...) for few month i wrote that we`ve got any/very few pentax lenses in our shops in innsbruck, austria sooo... ... ... today i was told that we are done with pentax, there will be final sale in few weeks, and then pentax will be sold only for order - which means nothing on stock, and ordering time from few days till few weeks - in short, no selling possibility at all. And we were one of the last who got pentax.) i hope the distributor in europe saved enought money for themselves with their shitty merchendising company because i won`t be able to sell pentax cameras any more.

Pretty sad, but then we're used to not seeing Pentax on the shelves.

[Pepe Le Pew]

Pretty sad, but then we're used to not seeing Pentax on the shelves.

Or in mega/super stores

[woodywesty]

the beginning of the end...) for few month i wrote that we`ve got any/very few pentax lenses in our shops in innsbruck, austria sooo... ... ... today i was told that we are done with pentax, there will be final sale in few weeks, and then pentax will be sold only for order - which means nothing on stock, and ordering time from few days till few weeks - in short, no selling possibility at all. And we were one of the last who got pentax.) i hope the distributor in europe saved enought money for themselves with their shitty merchendising company because i won`t be able to sell pentax cameras any more.

This is unbelievable.. Does anyone from Ricoh in Japan ever read this forum? Simply terrible marketing and product distribution....