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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-20-2017, 09:59 AM
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normhead: I agree with you completely on that, and I personally like a lightweight camera with compact lenses. To have that, I would rather give up some features, such as GPS, flash, moving LCD screen, many AF points, > 20 mp sensor, fast continuous shooting model.. and many others.
But we have to agree that, photographer like us are minority these days. Even we buy everything Pentax releases in the future, the selling is not going to be enough to give Pentax a good future as we talked. Pentax has to meet the needs from new users.
Imaging Pentax make a digitalized K1000, or better, super-A. You will buy, I want one, but how many can pentax sell? So the price will have to be high due to the low selling, which will further reduce selling units # and it in turn makes the price higher if Pentax wants to keep the line. Review comments: Pentax is doomed!!! Wants that much $ for such a simple camera?! Look at Canikon! look at Sony! Look at fuji if you want retro deign! ---- when the internet or social media is filled with such words, how can pentax keep doing this?
When Pentax's history becomes its burden, it might have to move on. Anyway Pentax is a company...
Minolta changed the mount (and left me behind, I hate it and switched to Pentax) but Minolta might have survived if not the patent issue. Canon changed the mount and so many users were mad, Canon grew from there and becomes the #1. Sony (almost) gives up A mount, so many A mount users are crying, NEX-E mount makes Sony successful.
I will not buy the new DFA 50 and 85, for the same reasons you have, but I can see why pentax has to do it in this internet and social media era. People makes decision based on reviews, and reviews are base on numbers...
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
10-26-2017, 10:22 AM
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Well said. And it is not just western society, I think it is more of a global issue. People in the internet era don't feel we need to be civil when posting on line...
Pentax users are used to be long time Pentax fan and are friendly to each other. Maybe it is a good sign that more new users are joining us? :)
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