RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: 6th Anniversary of My Blog

Monday, November 26, 2012

6th Anniversary of My Blog

One more year has elapsed and today is the 6th anniversary of my Blog!

I have been a Pentax user since 1988 and up till now I have been using the Pentax K-mount system for over twenty-four years (before that I was using a Canon). And the amount of time which I have contributed to the Pentax community via my this Blog is only a quarter of my whole time with Pentax.

During these six years, I have seen the rises and falls of some Pentax blogs, which the owners of the blogs have stopped updated theirs for some reasons, no matter how, but a common reason was that they actually switched. Fortunately, I am still here to "serve" the community. I am glad that Pentax is still alive and yet I am supporting the brand as long as Pentax is at least producing something that I am finding them useful and with some values and meanings to me.

As for the "popularity" and amount of traffic to my Blog, this is what the Statcounter shows, for the Yearly roundup:-

So, 2012 is the year with most visits (for more than one million) since the birth and launch of my Blog. I think the above recorded numbers are accurate as the Google data for Blogger generally tallies with the above, but with even a bit more of the traffic counts. I am not completely sure if it is because of that more people are interested in the Pentax gear or that I have gained more and more readership amongst the Pentax community. But from the referral (links) reports that I have been inspecting, I think the latter should be true.

Anyway, I still hope that Pentax will market a FF K-mount DSLR in the next year, which is what I have been waiting for ten years now, since my first *ist D! There is still hope, right? :-)

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Old 57 · 641 weeks ago

Thank you for your continues work and contribution!

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dekanyz · 641 weeks ago

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Bear Lew · 641 weeks ago

Been subscribe your blog since become a pentax user.
Hope the Pentax FF will coming soon, to make full use of fa lenses

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Padmakar Srivastava · 641 weeks ago

I have been a Pentax user since 1972, when my cousin returned from Canada with a Pentax Spotmatic (the original name being thought at that time was pentax averagematic, because it used the average light measurement by two cells at the either side of the screen, but from the marketing point of view the name “averagematic” was not very appealing, therefore, “spotmatic” was the name choosen). I used that camera more than my cousin did. I came to US in 1980 for my Ph.D., and my first objective was to buy a good camera (of course, other than my engineering studies). I compared Cannon F1, Nikon F3 and Pentax LX. After a research and torture for approximately 1 year, I bought Pentax LX, and never regretted. Those were the times when Pentax was one of the big 5. In fact, Pentax had been a company for most of the innovations in the camera industry. The first instant return mirror, the first multi-coating (Pentax and Zeiss invented the multi-coating) and so on.

I am very eagerly waiting for a full-frame Pentax, because I have 6 Pentax lenses, including a 100mm/f2.8 macro – an extremely fine lens. Not to mention that almost all Pentax lenses are superb.

However, for the last several years Penrax is in financial trouble, therefore, it may be difficult for them to produce a FF DSLR. But, Pentax should not forget that if they have to remain in the competitive market of DSLP, and if they want to earn their past glorious reputation, they have got to produce an superb FF DSLR as soon as possible.

Padmakar Srivastava

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RiceHigh 110p · 641 weeks ago

I guess Spotmatic meant spot on, i.e, accurate, as it is the first TTL SLR in the world. And, it is also the first camera on Earth that ever sold for one million in number, which witnessed the really glorious day of Pentax back to the 60s of the last century.

Besides, the double metering cell design was kept up to the Pentax SFX, which is the last model that had a double SPD/GPD metering cells at both side (left and right) of the pentaprism, which could indeed improve metering accuracy.

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Dr. Pad Srivastava · 538 weeks ago

The comments which I made about Pentax "Spotmatic" name, if I am correct (I am not sure 100 percent), came from Herbert Kepler, which I just reproduced. Herbert Kepler, in my opinion, was the foremost expert and very knowledgeable in photography hardware.

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Ricoh.pentax · 641 weeks ago

Congratulation for being in this world for that long Rice :)
clicking your blog is always means a great visit. This site is full of information, from release infos, hilarious comments to bleak prediction of the future. In some cases you have the guts to admits when you're wrong, and also have the guts to back up your post if you think its right. That make this site is rather colourful. Well not everyone can stand sarcasm though so sometimes it sparks non valid arguments from the reader.
But anyway, happy birthday . Did anyone send you something like Ned Bunnell's retirement cake?

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RiceHigh 110p · 641 weeks ago

I haven't retired yet! :-)