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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
01-20-2019, 09:30 AM
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The one thing we do know is that Pentax has been around for 100 years, and despite people claiming they were dead for 15-20 years now, are still around. These posters don't have track records like that. In fact most of them have never called anything correctly. Not only that Pentax has survived and thrived through the fall off of the ILC market and the advent of cell phone photography without a blink. Look at their competitors from 1970 and see how many of them are no longer even in existence. The issue here is credibility. Negative people simply refuse to acknowledge what Pentax has accomplished.
But bottom line, they ones who say "Pentax should do this. Pentax should do that" have no record to point to detailing why we should listen to them. It's all hot air. Pentax has a paper trail going back 100 years.
I fail to see how a company that seems to pry $500-$1000 of my limited pension income every year is in any kind of serious trouble, and has to do anything but keep on keeping on. I'm interested in what they are working on, and it's been hinted many times they are holding back product to release in the Centennial year. It gets tiring reading posts from those who bought into Pentax when they should have bought something else, complaining that Pentax isn't doing things they've never done. Your bad purchasing decisions do not give you the right to complain. Those are on you.
For example, anyone with a Pentax camera right now had the ability to go to a mirrorless system. They chose not to.They chose what Pentax had to offer. No one here can help them because they made that choice. You can complain about Pentax not having mirrorless options all you want, but it was your choice not mine. There are lots of other companies that make mirrorless. Go buy one. Pentax doesn't have to be everything to every one. Pentax's lone responsibility is to Pentax users who prefer Pentax for what it is. It has absolutely no responsibility to those who bought into the brand hoping for something different.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
01-19-2019, 07:47 AM
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Exactly what the more knowledgeable on the site have been saying for years.
What does Pentax have that we don't?
A sound statistical analysis of what sells and what doesn't.
Knowledge of the approximate development costs for new product, which they can weigh against the sales possibilities of said new product. They could put out a $1500 flash that was the greatest thing since sliced bread, with a built in radio trigger that can fire multiple flashes with 3 flashes in the box, and it would kill them. Because all of us who don't want that would now be able to buy a camera that meets more of their needs for cheaper. Yet we get all these things where people want something Pentax doesn't make, and project that into more sales and more market share. And honestly, many of these things would kill the company.
Without those two things, everyone on this site explaining what Pentax has to do is just fantasising.
The simple fact that many seem to constantly over look, is Pentax does what's good for Pentax. Their endless rants about what's wrong with Pentax, mostly because Pentax doesn't do something they think they should, don't in any way suggest Pentax should change what they do. (Although they often mean the user should have changed brands 6 months ago and is procrastinating by ranting at Pentax on the forum.) What they do need is the understanding that it isn't Pentax's job to make them happy. It's Pentax's job to make cameras and stay in business. And if the best way for them to do that is to cater to the Japanese enthusiast market and ignore the rest of the world, then that's what they are going to do. And as long as that produces a product I can use productively at a price I can pay, then that's fine with me.
There is nothing more frustrating than someone posting what Pentax has to do based on their own personal needs. Do folks really think that they represent enough of the camera buying public to keep Pentax afloat?. Apparently it's Japan that keeps Pentax afloat.
Many discover they bought the wrong thing, that they didn't do their research, they didn't anticipate their current needs or the direction of their growth. Much of this complaining seems like an attempt to blame their mistake on Pentax.
"Pentax doesn't make this or do that." Pffft. Pentax didn't do this or make that when you bought the camera. Nothing changed but you. What is more counter productive than buying product, and then expecting the company to change to meet your every new need and desire in the future. You buy what you need when you need it. If later you need something else, you buy that.
I've been looking for a USB-3c drive to take advantage of my new MacBook's USB port. It'a long way from being prevalent. In Canada it's hard to even find it in the stores. Amazon is pretty much your only choice. Right now I'm looking for a portable USB-3c SSD drive to put my Aperture library on. The pickings are pretty slim.
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