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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
07-13-2011, 09:32 AM
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Interesting read indeed, but nothing new either.
It all depends on the lenses manufacturing. If they're aiming for several thousand units a year, the prices can go down a lot (from €5000 to €500 easily) if you consider that Raytrix sells them as laboratory instruments.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
07-06-2011, 07:16 AM
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My guess is that it won't be a problem because there won't be any focus (and auto focus mechanism) needed!
If Pentax was in talks with Lytro to use this technology?
All these considerations would be irrelevant and they could design a nice compact body with an APS-C sensor, like say a X100, with a K-mount and compatibility with all current Pentax lenses.
No autofocus to worry about would greatly simplify the body and future lenses.
And when Ricoh heard about this they couldn't resist and made the deal.:p
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-02-2009, 08:40 PM
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Haven't you all used Photoshop? This image was certainly not created in Photoshop.
And CAD has nothing to do with that either. It might be a rendering (with programs like V-Ray or Maxwell for example), but a very good one with excellent materials. It's not engineers that can make such renderings but visualisation specialists (part of my job) or hobbyists.
I think it's a picture prepared by the marketing department for press releases. Or a rendering by a very talented but very idle artist (it would take me around 3 days full time to make a rendering as good). And I think the design decisions are just right from the kind of font used and it's color to the ribbing and the distance scale window.
-Marc
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-26-2009, 01:09 PM
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I think it's a fake but it's not because of the image shown.
To have a real picture of the real lens with all the right graphics it would need to be pretty near release.
The graphic designer in charge of updating the chart when marketing/engineering decides to make some changes don't necessarily have the time to model a lens a make some renders, especially if the chart is not supposed to be public!
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