Well two things, at least when Ricoh recycles a camera they don't lie
about it quite as much as Canon, and the link for more detail at "The
New Camera" website goes to a Pentax Japan page entirely in Japanese,
which would be very helpful I suppose if I spoke, or more importantly
read Japanese.
There's always Google translate, I doubt it would be worse than 50's and
60's era camera manuals translated from the Japanese, by native Chinese
speakers who had some passing knowledge of German, and had heard some
rumors of a related language called something like Anglish.
On 6/13/2019 8:44 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Ricoh just announced a "collector's" camera, "KP J limited"
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/japan/products/kp/jlimited/
https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/pentax-news/pentax-kp-j-limited-announced.html
Limited camera for limited people... (I shouldn't be that harsh about
Pentax collectors, - they are fine people.
This is not about them.)
I might sound quite a bit grouchy, but it seems to me that instead of
creating real camera products, Pentax releases something that
even according to their own expectation, would interest only 1% of
Pentax photographers...
With that, the flagship APS-C line has not had a camera in production
for several (2?) years. K-3 II was released in April of 2015.
The rumors say that the successor is expected in 2020:
http://thenewcamera.com/pentax-k-3-iii-coming-in-2020-more-confirmations/
In the mean time, there is a vacuum. I am afraid that it created a
dent in Pentax customer base. But, on the other hand, people will be
probably more enthusiastic about the new model if and when it will
come out.
... unless by that time it will be "dea... obsolete on arrival".
Cheers,
Igor
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