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Friday, September 22, 2017
BREAKING NEWS: Ricoh To Cease Pentax Production In 2018!
This site is parodic.... Just look at the other "article" titles... - iPhone X : the first smartphone to work at least 36 months - He stops his pro photographer carrer because he can't hack Photoshop anymore - He successfully take a correctly expoed photo without a lightmeter
"Nous rappelons à nos lecteurs que tous les articles publiés ici sont faux et rédigés afin d'animer la communauté photographique. La référence à des personnalités, des entreprises ou des institutions publiques est faite dans un but humoristique et satirique. Mais les meilleurs d'entre-vous ont déjà bien sûr compris cela !"
"We remind our readers that all the articles published here are false and written in order to entertain the photographic community. Any references to personalities, companies or public institutions is made for a humorous and satirical purpose. But the best of you have already understood this!"
my god! ricoh is buying nikon in order to further its photographic ambition. to preserve compatibility, they are developing a new KF mount to allow both pentax and nikon lenses to be used.
1/ it's not BREAKING NEWS, it's just an article on a satirical website
2/ This satirical report is not about Ricoh To Cease Pentax Production In 2018! It's about Ricoh having decided to shift the production of Pentax gear to a production to order scheme involving clients in the final assembly should they so wish.
A quick and dirty translation of the French article is following.
I will say straight. Sarcasm betrays one's hill-billy nature. Logic here is simple: if Ricoh deems it unprofitable to manufacture something, it will stop it. It is something to be expected. No matter what the customers say. That never matters to business. I matters only to the extent it brings money. Here you have it. For the guys posting sarcastic comments I will say: I never read those to the end. They are not interesting. They are silly.
Like with any satire, there's some truth to it ;) The first section sounds very plausible to me.
"Ricoh's management is about to communicate alarming figures to their shareholders" Yes, I'm expecting this actually
"The sale of Pentax cameras and lenses has not taken off since the beginning of the year" True, just look at Amazon DSLR or lens sales ranks, Pentax vanished almost completely.
"Only the Pentax 645Z [...] However the arrival on the market of a serious competitor, the Fujifilm GFX 50S, could threaten Pentax on this product range." True, theres not only the Fujifilm, but also the fullframe DSLRs with high pixel counts and super-resolving lenses these days. I believe that the 645Z sits between the chairs by now. The sensor is just so little bigger than fullframe, the difference is smaller than between fullframe and crop. Not much leeway to stand out. Btw, a 645D doesn't generally provide a better picture quality over a good DSLR, has been proven by RiceHigh himself and documented in this blog here, with example pixtures at full resolution. I think I remember he used a Sony A7R(?) and some old Canon lens (not available new).
Rice High, you are spreading nonsense. The very website you quote admits about itself:
Translation from French: "We remind our readers that all the articles published here are false and written in order to entertain the photographic community. Any references to personalities, companies or public institutions are made for humorous and satirical purpose. But the best of you have already understood this!"
i think this is warfare... since the success of K-1, Theta series and GR( which is highly appreciated amongst loads of professional photographers) says something else.
I bought Pentax K-1 with 24mm-70mm, f.2.8 lens, with multicoated circular polarizer and a Metz Mecablitz Flash. The combination is awesome. Very sharp lens and the camera, Pentax K-1, has so many other features (like pixel shift resolution and many more. And, it is priced much lower than the competition, Canon and Nikon. Perhaps Ricoh/Pentax did not make much noise about it, that is the reason, perhaps, that most photographers don't know about it.
All the others move on and reach new technological heights (unlike Pentax, which is still stuck with the K-1 with no successor in sight)
The Sony a7R III for example, now also has sensor shift. Not the Olympus style, which increases resolution plysically, but the Pentax style, which does color demoasicking in hardware rather than in software. I learned it through Tony Northrups review, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MaFBWGwcF8
However, as always, Tony tells the truth about it: "Pixel shift does not work AT ALL with any sort of movement which means like. NO LANDSCAPES because you think a landscape isn't moving, until you try to use a pixel shift picture, and then you realize that every leaf moved a little, and the water moved a little, and then the picture ends up just totally garbage"
So, this never has been a selling point to me at all anyway.
What I find impressive though is the demonstration of the eye tracking, when photographing humans! I think that mirrorless is the future, as I see Sony (and also Fuji and M4/3) adressing all the issues (such as battery life) successfully model-after-modell, the pace in which they advance is quite impressive.
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Julien · 391 weeks ago
- iPhone X : the first smartphone to work at least 36 months
- He stops his pro photographer carrer because he can't hack Photoshop anymore
- He successfully take a correctly expoed photo without a lightmeter
Sorry, but Pentax is not doomed (yet)
Mistral75 · 391 weeks ago
Source: same blog, 'About us' section https://www.pixelrond.com/a-propos/
Translation:
"We remind our readers that all the articles published here are false and written in order to entertain the photographic community. Any references to personalities, companies or public institutions is made for a humorous and satirical purpose. But the best of you have already understood this!"
ToetSFX · 391 weeks ago
guest · 391 weeks ago
Mistral75 · 391 weeks ago
1/ it's not BREAKING NEWS, it's just an article on a satirical website
2/ This satirical report is not about Ricoh To Cease Pentax Production In 2018! It's about Ricoh having decided to shift the production of Pentax gear to a production to order scheme involving clients in the final assembly should they so wish.
A quick and dirty translation of the French article is following.
Guest · 390 weeks ago
For the guys posting sarcastic comments I will say: I never read those to the end. They are not interesting. They are silly.
Eric · 390 weeks ago
The first section sounds very plausible to me.
"Ricoh's management is about to communicate alarming figures to their shareholders"
Yes, I'm expecting this actually
"The sale of Pentax cameras and lenses has not taken off since the beginning of the year"
True, just look at Amazon DSLR or lens sales ranks, Pentax vanished almost completely.
"Only the Pentax 645Z [...] However the arrival on the market of a serious competitor, the Fujifilm GFX 50S, could threaten Pentax on this product range."
True, theres not only the Fujifilm, but also the fullframe DSLRs with high pixel counts and super-resolving lenses these days. I believe that the 645Z sits between the chairs by now. The sensor is just so little bigger than fullframe, the difference is smaller than between fullframe and crop. Not much leeway to stand out.
Btw, a 645D doesn't generally provide a better picture quality over a good DSLR, has been proven by RiceHigh himself and documented in this blog here, with example pixtures at full resolution. I think I remember he used a Sony A7R(?) and some old Canon lens (not available new).
lee · 390 weeks ago
Guest · 390 weeks ago
Translation from French: "We remind our readers that all the articles published here are false and written in order to entertain the photographic community. Any references to personalities, companies or public institutions are made for humorous and satirical purpose. But the best of you have already understood this!"
Pete · 388 weeks ago
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saper · 386 weeks ago
HD PENTAX-D FA ★ 50mm f/1.4 SDM AW
HD PENTAX-DA ★ 11-18mm f/2.8
Eric · 386 weeks ago
The Sony a7R III for example, now also has sensor shift. Not the Olympus style, which increases resolution plysically, but the Pentax style, which does color demoasicking in hardware rather than in software.
I learned it through Tony Northrups review, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MaFBWGwcF8
However, as always, Tony tells the truth about it:
"Pixel shift does not work AT ALL with any sort of movement which means like. NO LANDSCAPES because you think a landscape isn't moving, until you try to use a pixel shift picture, and then you realize that every leaf moved a little, and the water moved a little, and then the picture ends up just totally garbage"
So, this never has been a selling point to me at all anyway.
What I find impressive though is the demonstration of the eye tracking, when photographing humans! I think that mirrorless is the future, as I see Sony (and also Fuji and M4/3) adressing all the issues (such as battery life) successfully model-after-modell, the pace in which they advance is quite impressive.