RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: The Quickly De-coloured 100th Anniversary Hotshoe Cover

Monday, August 10, 2020

The Quickly De-coloured 100th Anniversary Hotshoe Cover

A Xitek Pentax user complains about his brand new O-HC171, which was purchased from official Ricoh channel, has turned its colour from silver to black just within two days after he removed the protective film of it:

https://forum.xitek.com/thread-1896215-1-1-1.html
(in Simplified Chinese, Google translation to English here)

And, another Pentaxian in the above forum thread reported that his O-HC171 had also turned dark.

Seems like oxidation took place. What a Quality of Ricoh! :-o

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Derek · 240 weeks ago

There is a highly symbolic meaning to that. I never saw something like that before for any item, so let's assume: this is a deliberate, hidden message of one of the responsible guys at Pentax, saying: "we say goodbye and fade away into darkness now, after 100 years. Our curtain is falling, our stage lights go off, and our theater goes dark now. Good bye and thank you after 100 bright years" ;)

1 reply · active 240 weeks ago