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RICOH SIGNS TO BUY PENTAX TODAY - davidmanze - 10-01-2011 Hi guys, well Ricoh officially signs to buy Pentax today! Will this herald a new era for Pentax cameras,will we see a full format DSLR? I know that Hoya has been looking for a buyer for some time, unconvinced that there is enough money in the extremely competitive camera market,but Ricoh is an established manufacturer who has already had a relationship with Pentax in as much as it used the Pentax bayonet on its film SLR's.What I hope for personally is this; 1. to keep up the developement of the DSLR range and especially a newly developed "system of autofocus" this has been the real plague of Pentax DSLR's!!!!!!! A new 3D system that works and is not colour sensitive and is accurate in low light must now be a must or forget it Pentax!(head hunt a couple of Nikon designers if the Pentax ones can not do the job!) We love our Pentaxs but when there is another back or front focus photo we have to love them through clenched teeth, please can we have a good system? Also,I would like to see the Pentax bayonet on the new Ricoh aps compact camera,they have made a 12mb module for Leica lenses(great lenses surely,but the most expensive also!)now it would be nice to see a Pentax module with maybe the same sensor as the K5 so we can have a compact where we can use our Pentax lenses ,especially the pancake limited series! To me that makes total sense.So lets be optimistic and write plenty of comments on what we the CUSTOMER wants so at least Ricoh will know. Daves cliches RICOH SIGNS TO BUY PENTAX TODAY - boren - 10-01-2011 [quote name='dave's clichés' timestamp='1317453084' post='12004']To me that makes total sense.So lets be optimistic and write plenty of comments on what we the CUSTOMER wants so at least Ricoh will know.[/quote] As a Ricoh customer, I agree with most of what you say. Here's a summary of what I want Ricoh to do with Pentax technologies:
And here are a few things that Ricoh should avoid:
The way I see it the pros outweigh the cons by a large margin (even if not in word count), and as a (mostly) Ricoh user I'm very excited by the prospects of this merger. RICOH SIGNS TO BUY PENTAX TODAY - arvydas - 10-01-2011 I would add couple features from A12 - no AA filter and focus assist features (like peaking on NEX). A. RICOH SIGNS TO BUY PENTAX TODAY - finaldesignrb - 10-02-2011 [quote name='boren' timestamp='1317464077' post='12006'] ...Ricoh to do with Pentax technologies: [*]K and Q mounts. It would be nice to see GXR modules for these mounts (with full AF and AE of course) [/quote] That is a really cool thought, that you could have the same camera body with sensors optimized for autofocused Pentax Full Frame lenses, and/or a sensor optimized for Pentax half frame lenses, and/or a module optimized for tiny Pentax Q lenses. Does or will Ricoh make a module for micro four thirds lenses as well? That could end up being an even more incredibly flexible camera. RICOH SIGNS TO BUY PENTAX TODAY - boren - 10-02-2011 Currently the M-mount module is the only GXR mount module that's available. All other modules include fixed lenses. I'd expect to see Pentax mount modules before another "foreign" one. RICOH SIGNS TO BUY PENTAX TODAY - netrex - 10-02-2011 [quote name='boren' timestamp='1317464077' post='12006']
Unattractive menus? Are you talking about Pentax or Ricoh now? If it's Pentax, what are you on about? A menu system should be function and usability driven, not looks, that makes no sense what so ever. I have no problems with the Pentax menus at all, they work fine as they are, I certainly hope they're wasting time on it just for the looks. The menus do not look ugly, or good, it's just a menu, I don't see how this matters at all. It's not a website we're talking about here. I've seen the menues in Canon and Nikon DSLRs, the same thing, they're also just menus, and they don't look either good or bad. |