RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: 7th Anniversary of My Blog

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

7th Anniversary of My Blog

Seven years ago, I created my this Blog. Today is the birthday of my Blog. Time flies and just recently, it was recorded that there had been more than 5 million unique visiting sessions to my this "useless" and "brand bashing" Blog, already! ;-p

Thank you for your reading and continuous support (if it is the case). This year, I have a heavy heart to "celebrate" the birthday of my Blog actually as I have a strong feel that the brand name Pentax would exist no longer and that even the K-mount would be aborted shortly all together. We, as an old Pentaxians, have nothing to do to change anything that we really don't want them to happen, but unfortunately one by one! So, what can we do?! >:-(

P.S. This is the 1,998th post at my Blog, which is close to another milestone of mine that will come very soon, i.e., the 2,000th post, after the 1,000th post back to 2011 two years and something ago~ :-D

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Michael A. · 589 weeks ago

Enjoy you 7th Anniversary of this sometimes turbulent but very appreciated blog! Obviously, it takes plenty of your time and also money to run it. Thank you very much for doing that!

BTW, ""IF"" the K-mount gets (very unlikely) aborted, it wouldn't mean a damn thing to my current K bodies and lenses anyway. They would work just fine as long as I would use them to take pictures... And I would perhaps supplement needs/wants with what would make sense at the time.

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ricoh.pentax · 589 weeks ago

congratulations rice!!! eventhough im not visiting this blog as often as when i use pentax but still this blog is another home when im tired of webspace.
thank you for every info you post here ..
peace be upon you
gretings from indonesia

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hys · 589 weeks ago

I Thank You and please, enjoy not only the 7th Anniversary but even more.

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badsykes · 589 weeks ago

Well, if you don't like Ricoh your blog will not reach 8th aniversary ...

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RiceHigh 110p · 589 weeks ago

Why? If Pentax is eliminated completely some days later, I still can change my Blog's name to a Ricoh's Blog, within a minute! ;-D

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foton · 589 weeks ago

But, frankly, if you say you will never buy that ugly Ricoh stuff, why would you keep the blog then?

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RiceHigh 110p · 589 weeks ago

Who said people who hang around the internet must buy? In contrast, I think most of those fanboys did not buy much, or even nothing!

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foton · 589 weeks ago

But what about you? Well, if such is your answer, do you consider yourself one of them?

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Andrés · 589 weeks ago

Happy birthday and possible future of doom

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RiceHigh 110p · 589 weeks ago

Thank you all for the Congrats btw! :-D

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Dan Johnson · 589 weeks ago

Thanks for all the threads past, present, and future (my favorite's on changing a Canon 5D to take Pentax K-mount lenses), I'll be hear if and WHEN changing mounts is the only way I'm allowed to use the lenses I've bought recently like many good photographers.

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Milan · 589 weeks ago

Thanks Rice for stirring up trouble and controversy instead of licking corporate butt. I love your blog! It has always been great.
I will continue to come here because I'll always use old Pentax lenses even if only on my Sony cameras.

So far Ricoh isn't doing so great. Pentax hasn't gone under yet, but it is certainly seems to be fading away. Not with a bang but a whimper.
So sad...

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Simon · 589 weeks ago

Congrats dear RiceHigh.
I'm still waiting for the one news, you know what I mean. ;)

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Sony camera do mundo · 589 weeks ago

I don't want to get into politics but looks like east asia is going to blow up. It might be a good time to grab all those lenses you've dreamt about. FF or APS-C lenses or whatever. And also don't forget to get those cheapo chinese Adapters for your Sony A7R. good luck.

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fliptoback · 589 weeks ago

7 years of bitterness towards something you once loved, now hated......that's really some thing. I wish you all the best in establishing the 8th year of your existence on the web.

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pentaxfools · 589 weeks ago

I can't speak for rice but I hate what pentax has produced over the past few years. no new glass worth mention no new bodies worth mention. Pentax drove themselves into oblivion by not providing what the market wanted to buy. I hate Pentax for being fools.

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pentaxfools · 589 weeks ago

I also hate folks that have blind loyalty to anything or anybody much less a camera brand.

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pentaxfools · 589 weeks ago

I also hate folks that have blind loyalty to anything or anybody much less a camera brand.

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pentaxfools · 589 weeks ago

Thanks for speaking the truth Rice, Just change the name to "Pentax vintage glass forums dot com". Pentax has hobbled along at best over the past ten years. The only thing worth buying are the limited fa's if you have a modern body you would like to adapt then for (A7r)