All of this has made me want a matte blacked out edition of the k3 monochrome but with a shiny black Hello Kitty on the prism housing. Oh, and a carbon fiber filter mode! Cheers Eck
Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> schrieb am So. 16. Apr. 2023 um 23:59: > > > > On Apr 16, 2023, at 2:22 PM, Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > Am 16.04.23 um 22:49 schrieb Larry Colen: > >> I've been thinking about how Ricoh does things like their steadfast > devotion to the Pentaprism, coming out with a monochrome sensor, most of > their software updates are for instagram style filters on JPEGs, and > removing any usefulness from the RGB histogram. Ricoh marketing's target > demographic is people who want to take photos with a cellphone, but who > want to cosplay what they think are real photographers. > > > > This goes all the way back to the days of Pentax still ruling themselves > > when the K-7 shortly after its introduction would have needed a few > > urgent updates and corrections and all Pentax came up with were improved > > water colour and wax crayon filters. > > > > Much of their market research must be done in some kind of kindergarden. > > Or by people in kindergarten. > > If you go to the weekend motorcycle hangouts, like Alices in Woodside, > there are certain motorcycles that tend to be ridden by two groups of > people: > beginners and old farts that have been carving canyons twice as long as > most of the squids on their 150hp crotchrockets have been alive. I don't > know what the current ones are, but the ninja 250 and hawk 650 were like > that. They had everything you needed to have a blast riding the backroads, > weren't crazy expensive, and it's more fun to ride a bike that rewards > skill, rather than doing everything for you, which would be demonstrated by > said old farttes blowing away squids on bikes that had four times their > horsepower. > > Pentax is kind of like that, I think that most of the people on this list > have been shooting with Pentax since they bought their first Spotmatic. The > only difference is that there aren't a lot of new photographers picking > them up. I suspect that if there is any thought behind their strategy, they > really are looking to attract people looking to move up to their first > "real camera" by making it as much like their phone as possible. > Unfortunately, they don't seem to understand the part about not getting in > the way of the user who knows more than a $2 processor about photography. > Ricoh also seems to understand about as much about cool as the 57 year old > high school administrator trying to convince kids that they shouldn't do > exactly the things that kids want to do. > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com. sent from Mirkwood > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
