RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: The One and Only One Official Pentax Web Domain Left

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The One and Only One Official Pentax Web Domain Left

http://pentaxplus.jp/index.html
(in Japanese)

A quick check on the registration information confirms that this web domain was registered and is still being held by the "Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company Co, Ltd." which was also renamed anyway.

It is noted that the registration will soon expire by fall March this year. Hope that this last official "Pentax" website will be kept. Nonetheless, some photos in this website are great and worth a look.

Related:

PENTAX is Gone! >:-(

The Name PENTAX is Dismissed from the Cyber Space! >:-(

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MrBig · 584 weeks ago

The big question now is...

If this will spell the end of Rice High's Pentax troll site?
Or will good ol' Rice prove adaptive and start a new grief campaign on Ricoh?

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phoenix15 · 584 weeks ago

http://www.pentaxwebstore.com/

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Andrés · 584 weeks ago

Hey Rice, I already did it for you:

RiceHigh's *"Ricoh"* Blog
• News about New Products and Latest Company Direction
• Summaries of Reported Problems and Potential Issues
• Technical Articles on Photographic Gear and Technologies

Welcome to RiceHigh's *"Ricoh"* Blog, the Most Popular and Fastest Updated Unofficial and Non-affiliated Online *"Ricoh"* Resource! Just make sure that you won't get lost here, where might be too much *"Ricoh"* related information and too many articles to dig up! ;-D Start Explore Now!

How it sound?

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Simon · 584 weeks ago

If you don't like this site, quit visiting it. It's that simple guys.
Btw, I like it.

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full frame unlikely · 584 weeks ago

I like it too. I stopped visiting PF. Went there today and read the same tired arguments from Norm and the other dyed in the wool APSC people. So lame. Actively campaigning to stop a FF camera==PF users (what's left).

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Mike Kawasaki · 584 weeks ago

Photography camera market shrunk 50% in size in between 2011 and 2013. And the analysiz show it iz to shrink another 33% within the next 18 monthz.
Az you say, it iz now perfect time for Pentax to splurge a huge pile of money down the drain and issue a brand new FF camera; not just one, but a few, and entire systemz of lensez.

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armchair quarterback · 584 weeks ago

90% of stats and predictionz are wrong.

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Ying · 584 weeks ago

Rice, maybe you should register pentax.com

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walt · 584 weeks ago

What if Ricoh comes out with the full frame? Will the bashing continue? Most likely, otherwise this blog will no longer have a purpose. If Pentax is really a dead brand/division/company then I suggest that you go through the grieving process and move on.

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Chris · 584 weeks ago

Just imagine Ricoh had launched the A7. The bashing would be violent and bloody in this blog...

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Richard · 584 weeks ago

I find the negative comments about this blog amazingly childish. I too will miss the Pentax name and question the wisdom of Ricoh in trying to establish a new brand. This is typical for Japanese marketing..very few Japanese companies other than Sony and Toyota understand the value of their reputation and the brand.

I wish Ricoh all the best in resurrecting their brand. I know I will not be buying any a Ricoh product other than copier.

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Chris · 584 weeks ago

@Richard: on the one hand, people defending Ricoh/Pentax and writing good about APS-C products are, in this blog, often accused of being "fan boys". On the other hand, what could be more "fanboyish" than clutching a brand? A brand does have value in marketing, and subconsciously a customer may attach a calue to it, but openly saying that it is the _brand_, as opposed to product quality, one is looking for when making a purchase decision - seems irrational to me.

Whether or not it is "smart" by Ricoh to use Pentax as a product brand but drop the company name, time will tell. To me it seems a natural step. And it is not the big deal that Rice is making out of it: Ricoh has NOT stated in any way it does not want to continue the product brand Pentax. Quite the contrary. Plus, everybody reading this blog knows already where to look for Pentax DSLRs: at Ricoh. So product recognition is also not affected. So what's the big deal?

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fullframeisbest · 584 weeks ago

Chris, There was a good thread on dpreview recently about someone who switched to full frame. The moderators deleted a very good post by unexpresivecanvas. Now that is fanboish behavior at its worst. You're not even allowed to say your opinion that full frame is better. This will change overnight if Pentax releases a full frame. Then all of a sudden, you'll be missing out without it. Admit this.

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fullframeisbetter · 584 weeks ago

I don't understand this fanboy delusion. I can understand devotion to friends and family but to a brand of consumer electronics? It's beyond me. I also can't understand the vilification of a design that's clearly better, although marginally more expensive. Full frame, now with 36mp, hands down whips APS-C and is more comparable with medium format, yet still just about mobile enough.

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Chris · 584 weeks ago

I would certainly buy a Pentax FF at a price point up to 3k.

But I prefer a Pentax APS-C to any other currently available APS-C, because I honestly believe Pentax has the best offering in this market segment, from JPG image quality out of camera (I usually do not shoot RAW because I do not like to do PP on every image) to ergonomics and usability, plus the lens offering (from fish-eye 10mm to medium tele 300mm).

I believe it is a major achievement for the relatively small Pentax company that they manage to "be different" and actually make better offerings to the semi-pro/amateur photographer than the big names who produce excellent high-end cameras and then derive the semi-pro offerings by deliberately omitting features and downgrading stuff.

Brand? I couldn't care less. However, I do like to support a company that is not #1 or #2 on the market, because I believe the oligopoly of Canikony on the DSLR market is not good for the consumer. But this is a side thought and does not drive my purchase decisions.

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fullframeisbetter · 584 weeks ago

You're a normal well balanced individual though. Some are lunatics.

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Gameoverpentax · 584 weeks ago

Sony a7 makes k3 an immediate redundancy.. Pentax completely depends on Sony sensor.. Pentax lose lose situation. Sony a7 sucks pentax blood..

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fullframeisbetter · 584 weeks ago

Not sure it's that bad to be honest, the A7 isn't really the same thing. If you have Pentax lenses then it's manual focus only and there's issues with shutter shake, it's not an action cam, rather an art cam. Many lenses also won't adapt, smearing, vignetting.

I'd sooner have a K-3 over an A7 simply because it's got all round capability with Pentax lenses.

Ricoh wouldn't have bought Pentax if they didn't think it would survive and prosper. So I suspect they'll be investing in product development well into the next few years.

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Chris · 584 weeks ago

Seriously? How come that there are K-3 customers anyway?
I've seen A7 pictures and I'm not impressed at all.
But I AM impressed by the performance of my K-3 with the 20-40 Ltd. or the 70 Ltd.

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Doom days · 584 weeks ago

There are pentax user who bought A7 over k3 ... I am not impressed with k3 at all.. A7 fullframe depends on user capabilities.. They don't scream .. But you need to see more pictures to concluded your findings.. Fanboys will say what fanboys says.

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