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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
04-12-2018, 06:45 PM
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This is both good and bad.
I am for one VERY happy that they are committed to the highest of standards of quality control. Absolutely NO QUESTION on that. I actually give them big credit for staying true to what we all want and have come to expect from Pentax.
On the other hand this exposes some critical errors from Pentax (Ricoh). They have limited resources just like everyone else does, but they are not focusing their efforts where they have their biggest weakness. They drag around like lenses are a second thought. Design your own zooms for FF? NOPE and NOPE.
Pentax (Ricoh) is an electronics company. That culture needs to change. Don't abandon the strengths, but make the weaknesses stronger. If they would hurry up and fill out their lens selection--and focus on THAT it will help their bottom line a ton. At the rate they are going it will be 3 or 4 years before they have an acceptable lineup of lenses.
Honestly if I won the powerball tomorrow I would start investigating other options. It's not because I don't like Pentax or that Pentax offers bad stuff, but they are taking ten years to give me what I could just go out an buy tomorrow from someone else if I had the cash. I am being patient but geez man this is getting old.
I don't mind a couple of months delay for a fifty that I might eventually get, but I would hope this would mean they can offer other subsequent lenses at a faster pace once they get the bugs worked out of the new line. We are at least five prime lenses away from having the lineup they need.
For me personally what I want seems to be their absolute last thing on their to do list. It's kind of getting old to be honest.
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