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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-26-2017, 02:41 AM
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Yes, that sucks for everyone who's been waiting and needs or wants such a lens right now.
Just wanted to point out that we're talking about Ricoh, the same company that undertook a (perhaps) unprecedented act of necromancy by resurrecting the Pentax full-frame camera project and bringing it to production after 15 years and two different owners. Also, they've been pretty candid that the Q-line is in a holding pattern. One presumes if they're keeping the ultrawide zoom on the roadmap, it's because the plan is still to release it. So, it may be not so much that they will not deliver, but that they may be operating on a very different time scale (geologic?) than everyone's normal expectations, which at this point in time understandably appears like it won't ever happen.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-27-2017, 03:50 PM
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It's good to keep things in context.
Adam, Albert and others do a service to the forum members here to sift through all the submitted questions and then go to CP+ to meet with the Ricoh peeps. The PF admin run a forum/community for Pentax users, it totally relies on the users, so why wouldn't they rely on those questions? Yes, Ricoh sent four people, which for them obviously is meant to convey that they consider the interview important and that they consider PF and its members, largely from outside of their home market of Asia, to be of some significance. And there's been follow through on at least some of the outstanding things long-mentioned by forum members, i.e., mechanical SR in video mode. If you're saying that Ricoh/Pentax were their usual relatively tight-lipped selves, well then maybe you're new here? :D:D:D
The DPR interview starts off saying the Sigma CEO is an exceptional interview subject, so obviously that interview is going to be of a different quality and calibre than all the rest, Ricoh included. That's pretty much the definition of exceptional, isn't it?
Someone else drew a comparison to Imaging Resource goes. Dave Etchells is the one that does their interviews and gets exceptional interviews. His circumstances seem quite different. He can take the interview where he wants and isn't necessarily beholden to his readership in the same way PF is to its members and can pursue any line of questioning he feels is interesting. As one of the owner's of IR, I suspect he gets different treatment than Adam and Albert representing the motley crew of us PF members. He's obviously got some kind of engineering background which also makes his questions very insightful. Plus, he has the benefit of having been at this for quite a while, permitting him to cultivate personal relationships with definite people at various companies.
The PF interviews play their role in ferreting out info, as do the PF members who visit CP+ and talk to the reps, along with all the other interviews on IR, etc.
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