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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
11-24-2017, 07:15 AM
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For proof of this, one only needs to read the whining on DPR's Nikon and Canon forums.
The more we have the less happy we are.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-19-2017, 12:57 AM
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What we are missing right now with Pentax is the "system" part. A few zooms and some 20 year old lenses does not make a system.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-19-2017, 12:20 AM
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There seems to be a lot of people here who don't understand hyperbole.
The point, which seemed to go over many heads, is that we wouldn't be using Pentax.
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I love camera systems.
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Let's also not pretend that Pentax would have been making cameras in 2008 had it not been for Hoya. Having said that, Hoya never did want the imaging side of the company, their sole aim was to acquire the medical imaging division. What they did after that was a travesty. The K-7 was the first fully Hoya camera, and it had a problem with floating hot pixels. Then came the K5 with all of it's problems.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-18-2017, 05:45 PM
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You are arguing semantics.
Had Pentax peen in a solid financial position a decade ago, their major shareholder wouldn't have been terribly interested in the buy out, and they most likely could have remained a self supporting company.
Over a two decade period, they sat in their hands and let their technology fall behind, let their sales numbers slip sales numbers slip, and did nothing to stop it.
Were it not for the medical division, Pentax wouldn't have made it into the 21st century, Were it not for the medical division doing well enough to generate outside interest, Hoya would have had no interest in acquiring the company and we would all be using Fuji camera with our legacy glass because Pentax would no longer exist.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-18-2017, 10:50 AM
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Actually, Pentax started falling behind in the 1980s. It was the falling behind that led to their inability to stay in business and got them sold.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-16-2017, 12:40 PM
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Even if old lenses are good enough, one has to play used market roulette to get them. This becomes a problem for attracting new users who look at what's available on some retailer's website.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-09-2017, 06:55 PM
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Between 2003 and 2016, they released what? a dozen or so lenses for APS-C, how long do you expect them to take to release lenses for full frame?
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