Quoting Bob Sullivan <[email protected]>:
Tom,
Your right, it's not about brand names. It's about images.
But don't overlook EASY in all this discussion.
I have/own these Pentax lenses.
I know how these Pentax cameras work.
I know how to get the images I want with my equipment.
Changing to another brand means re-learning all this stuff.
I haven't got the energy to do all that...
What Bob and John said.
Whether Pentax is a dead brand remains to be seen. Ricoh has been
producing cameras for decades without ever threatening the big brands.
They seem to be pretty adept at niche marketing and presumably they
make enough profit from the exercise to make it worthwhile (they even
sold me one of their XR-series SLRs back in the '70s). I don't think
there's been sufficient time yet for Ricoh to have a major impact on
the Pentax brand. Maybe in 2013...
(that Sony NEX7 does look nice, though).
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Tom Cakalic <[email protected]> wrote:
THROW BRAND NAME OUT THE WINDOW!
Stop thinking (like me) that because you've been mostly or 100%
Pentax, that you're confined to a brand. That's not true!
Why do you like photography?
Is it because you like to see things?
Is it because you like to share things?
Is that true or not?
In that case, stop thinking that YOUR current BRAND must be PENTAX.
Your 'investment' in the brand is temporal.
Regardless of brand, the excellent image you capture and share is by
far the most important thing you will produce!
Photography is not about brand name.
I write this because I believe, really believe, that Pentax is a dead brand.
Be honest with yourselves. I think Pentax has been, for the last 20
years, the bargain brand. That's why I joined .
,,, 1990.. 2012...
It's not about brand.
Tom C.
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