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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-27-2017, 07:10 AM
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60mm macro for the FF is the 4th prime. Weather sealed. It is a real lens.
And you will not get this real info from anyone else, because those other guys know nothing real.
Enjoy.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-01-2017, 06:44 PM
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In digital age there will be more photo enthusiasts than during the film age. I would say twice as many at least. Each household will have twice as many proper digital cameras than film cameras — despite mobile phones. The success of mobile phones lie exclusively in one fact: they are obtainable at a plan, paid monthly. But are obsolete much faster than proper cameras. Smartphone market will too stagnate.
Number of sales of digital cameras are currently dropping because for a while they were abnormally high for this industry, but are still much higher than even at best moments during the film era.
Back then, sales compared to current sales were abysmal! Canon was producing mere 1/6 of current EOS cameras! Tell me, how bad was back then?! Yet no one ever cried end of the world, end of camera business, etc. People were normal. Doom&gloom is purposefully broadcasted nonsense in the digital era, by the ill-educated bloggers who have full access to world communication highways, and by the investors, who live by such rapid expansions / contractions of the markets. That is called the shock economy, and it is bad! Everyone wants quick money based on lies and false expectations. Digital photo industry need to get out of that mode, and stabilise itself, become normal — same as bred and butter production is stabile and normal for decades.
Another way to stabilise this market is that number of bloggers and forums drops down, and people rely exclusively on professional insights by industry experts. In film era, we read magazines that were edited by professionals and normal people. Not so today. Today 90% of online information about digital photography is garbage, that would never have been published in magazines.
In essence, only those companies that were fooled by a sudden abnormal growth in digital camera market will suffer, because they had big expectations which never had support in reality. Nikon is one of them. Sony too.
Ricoh Imaging is not one of them, though. They were conservative and they must persist being normal, and have modest expectations, and think outside the box, deliver good value products. And people will come and buy, share valuable information.
That is all.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-01-2017, 06:31 PM
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-27-2017, 09:45 PM
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FA Ltds were designed not to make Pentax any better, or to appeal to sensibilities, but to promote Asahi's coatings of the late 1990s. It is as crude truth as that. If Asahi really wanted to help Pentax, they could have invested more heavily in AF and lens motors to match Nikon and Canon tech of the same era, but they did not. They were interested in a new round of milking money for their coating application, which up to that time was industry-leading.
First wave of SMC was introduced some 20 years before, and Asahi worked on new updates, for renewal of patents. They have chosen odd focal lengths, gave design work to a young Asahi employee, chosen exotic glass, put all the latest coatings on those lenses, and pulled out a very good PR story.
Do you think, even for a moment, that anyone would ever make any effort to report on a new lens design (?!?) as it were a national holiday sort of thing? No. But such odd stories are quite common in the PR industry, where events are pre-made, and articles ordered, like we order a meal in the restaurant. And then they are served to you. I would say 90% or articles in media today are pre-made exactly like that. That is why we have crisis in the media world‚ very little we read is real or genuine. Most of it is pre-fabrication.
31mm, 43mm and 77mm — focal lengths so weird no one hardly ever considered, least tried to make because they are superfluous. But because of it they were suddenly filling the air and pages of the photo industry, with a ready story and really good images. That is, but few actually understood, real heroes were not FA limiteds. Real heroes were Asahi's new patents and Asahi did it all to lure in new patent customers.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-27-2017, 05:50 PM
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Questions are too specific, too technical, and too widespread. Company cannot really open up, because they are, like, in front of a firing squad comprised of 40 guys aiming all across their body.
For better insights, PF should invite them to a coffee, and talk about a few subjects only, only few, and let them come forward with their thoughts. Imaging Resources manages to do that to a better degree.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-27-2017, 05:47 PM
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Exactly. And still use screw drive on top of that? Well, no.
Everyone in their right state of mind, and with a bit of technical competence, understands that FA limiteds cannot be modernised to today's standards without a complete redesign, and after that redesign, they are not FA limiteds anymore.
Instead of that futile effort, we can have a modern DFA*50/1.4, which — lo and behold — is coming, and is a far better option for users who wish to come from other systems.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-24-2017, 01:39 PM
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Thank God. Excellent idea.
Then we'll have less of such threads.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-23-2017, 10:54 PM
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It would be better for them to release any K mount lens instead.
K1 is hot hot hot. Q is not.
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35/1.4 lens I hope.
Drop a bomb Ricoh! 35, 50, 85, beautiful and new, all in f/1.4. And then let those K1s fly off the shelves!
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