RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: Pentax -> Pentax Ricoh -> Ricoh Pentax -> What's Next?

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Pentax -> Pentax Ricoh -> Ricoh Pentax -> What's Next?

A Taiwan Pentaxian unboxed his new Ricoh K-3 has taken a shot together with his old K-5 and K-5IIs for the boxes and bodies, as follows:

http://www.pentaxfans.net/thread-141437-1-1.html
(in Traditional Chinese)

So, as clearly seen in the above, the path of brand naming goes down like that: Pentax -> Pentax Ricoh -> Ricoh Pentax -> What's NEXT?? :-o

I bet most primary pupils will guess the answer should be RICOH Only, which is much sensible enough. Yes, that's my bet too! The trend is really too obvious but again, it is SO SAD! Not even to mention it is rather disgusting afterall! >:-[

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That's Really Disgusting! New RICOH>>Pentax Branded Stuff! >:-(

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interestingman · 597 weeks ago

Pentax will regain it past glory one day very soon. The new camera is being designed by the most interesting man in Mexico. The release date is April first stay thirsty my friends...

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pentaxfools · 597 weeks ago

I said it before their old glass and the k-1000 is what Pentax will be remembered for. The digital era will be remembered about as well as the pentax 110slr phase.

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Bukaj · 597 weeks ago

The Pentax will stay as a Ricoh product line and I am totally OK with that.

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ToetSFX · 597 weeks ago

I think they will keep the brand PENTAX alive, but I'm not sure about it, when they "abort" the brand PENTAX, one group will leave PENTAX, another group will stay (securing the valuable lenses). I am not sure about a lot of new Ricoh users..........The marketing of NIKON/CANON/SONY is too huge. I don't know my own descision yet. May be also I will be leaving at the end ... I still have hope for a HD Pentax - DFA 150-600 F 5.0-6.3 ED AL (IF) DC WR, as a re-branded Tamron 150-600. They still have to be creative......

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Ayrat · 597 weeks ago

"It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice"
Deng Xiaoping

Does anyone regret about Minolta brand?

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Pop · 597 weeks ago

Oh no, not again Rice, I thought we had been through this whining movie before. All Minolta whiners do shout hurray for Sony now or at least most of them.

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mattanjah · 597 weeks ago

Boys, do you love photography or photography gear only? Having mount-K lenses I'm happy that K-3 is a fantastic camera: relatively small, well builded, with awesome specification not on paper only. I love Pentax brand, but prefer to have an awesome camera by Pentax/Ricoh with both names on the body, than be forced to change my system in the nearest future. Pentax as brand is not a fetish for me, but I love the history of these cameras started as Asahi Kogaku Goshi Kaisha brand and then: Asahi Optical Co. Ltd. with Asahiflex as the name of a camera , Asahi Pentax, Honeywell Pentax, Pentax Corporation, Hoya Pentax HD Corporation, Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd and now Ricoh Imaging Company Ltd.

"The name "Pentax" was originally a registered trademark of the East German VEB Zeiss Ikon (from "Pentaprism" and "Contax") but, as all Germans patents were annulled with the country's defeat, the name "Pentax" was taken by the Asahi Optical company in 1957." (Wikipedia)

So you must to decide if you love gear and being "pentaxians" or photography and teeing photos with amazing cameras like the new K-3.

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pentaxfools · 597 weeks ago

I want a FF camera that I can hang my k mount lenses from. Pentax does not want my money. They want me (by their actions) to buy the Sony A7r so I have ordered it. I am going in this direction because it is a better photographic tool then the k-3. Not just because it is a sony of my owny.

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pentaxfools · 597 weeks ago

It is pentax's crappy offerings that I am concerned with, not their label. Pentax had a chance now they don't. Even at PF the top post is about a 30 year old model car that had the Pentax logo on it. Back up the web site boys it's over!

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Dave · 597 weeks ago

Your right Pop, in America it's all over. Only mentioning 1 of the 2 winners will help you find a job when you are asked what you have for a DSLR. I too am locked into what camera brand I'm allowed to spend my money on (by lens mount only) yet evan though a lot of clients don't take Pentax serious they don't recognize Ricoh. Most of us know Samsung will have a tough battle with Sony, and other smaller brands will still be around on clearance sale.

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Pop · 597 weeks ago

Narrow minded clients over there Dan eh I mean Dave.

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Bzrkd · 597 weeks ago

Nothing helps Rice's bad mood than spreading it around, using any and every mean and device possible. :-)
Be it any Ricoh's corporate move, any Pentax branded product, some other company's product or service — there is an inevitable and forced conclusion that it is all bad news anyway and that Pentax is doomed now forever.

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Yoku2 · 597 weeks ago

Mount K is the important thing, not name.

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Andrés · 597 weeks ago

I tend to look the objects over the boxes, and all I can see three cameras slightly different, from the older to the newest, one better to another, till the last one achieved to polish almost every minor defect or characteristic from the previews, only replacing bottom screen leyend from Pentax to Ricoh. Not a big deal while the actual manufacturer continue the line of develop based on the pleasure of photographic experience.