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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
02-20-2018, 07:46 PM
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Clearly you haven’t been around for a while, as you stated in #1. asahiman doesn’t post here any more. His posts at the other site have not been nearly as correct and insightful as in the past. kenspo has been consistently positive and seems to know what is coming - and is excited about it.
I think the pace at which Pentax can develop and release product is not aligned with the pace at which many want new toys (you might suffer from that Dissonance). They’re just too small to move faster. Pentax is what it is.
Trying to impress a Canon, Nikon, Sony and Fuji business and product model on Pentax is a fool’s errand. That is a recipe for constant disappointment, unhappiness and complaints.
Pentax will release a K-1 Super this week; an APSc flagship (major rework and new technology) sometime within this year and a 645y within a few months after that. They’ll also release roadmapped K-mount FF and APSc lenses, some 645 lenses, and surprise us with something no one has talked about. Theta will be very active. There will be a major upgrade FF in 2019 or early 2020. That’s 2 years of product calendar.
That’s what Pentax is doing. If that isn’t enough for you then I can’t help.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
02-20-2018, 11:07 AM
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Frankly, Pentax should publish outcome-specific setting sheets. Eventually there would be a Settings Guide.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
02-19-2018, 08:47 PM
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Pentax is really tiny compared to the other brands and Ricoh gives them no capital support. Hoya strippedthe old company assets and left a husk, with no outside cashflow to draw on. Canon is huge by comparison (25x larger) and has a truly massive company behind it. Nikon is smaller than Canon, but still 15 or 20x larger than Pentax and has Mitsubishi. Sony has Sony. Fuji has Instax. Hassy has Chinese capital, as does Leica. Ricoh puts its capital behind Theta, a rapidly growing consumer product. Pentax apparently makes a small profit and apparently is self-financing.
As far as making a stir and letting the momentum slip away, Pentax has been that way for 50 years.
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