Sadly, that happened to me back in 2003. Canon and Nikon were bringing out consumer level DSLRs. The Canon D60 (6mp) cost me 3000 GBP back in the days when I was earning good money. Kept and used some Pentax lenses, but my last Pentax cameras were MXs and an LX! I wanted desperately for Pentax to release the MZ-D but alas, it never came…. Never went back, sadly. Although my wife still uses an original *ist D that I occasionally have to persuade into operation for her… Hope all well, Cotty On 14 Jul 2022, at 00:53, Steve Sharpe <dx-3@eastlink.ca> wrote: ...As long as the remaining Pentax users don't desert the brand for mirrorless cameras made by other companies... Oh, wait...that's already happening, isn't it?

This is the business Pentax (Ricoh) is in at present: https://youtu.be/xQHAagOFdh4 A camera to impress your photo colleagues. Not a camera for me though as my photo subjects will get scared by the scarlet rouge colour. Henk Op do 14 jul. 2022 om 02:35 schreef Rick Womer <rickpics14@gmail.com>: > Pentax leadership must have a drug problem. I did a good deal of shooting > with 3 other photographers recently, and their question was “Is Pentax > really still in business?” > > Rick > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 19:53 Steve Sharpe <dx-3@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > > ...As long as the remaining Pentax users don't desert the brand for > > mirrorless cameras made by other companies... > > > > Oh, wait...that's already happening, isn't it? > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:29:52 -0600, Bill wrote: > > > In a few years Pentax will be alone in the SLR market. > > > It will be a small market, but being the only player in it isn't a bad > > > place to be. > > > > > > bill > > > > - Steve > > -- > > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.

Am 16.07.22 um 23:28 schrieb Henk Terhell: > This is the business Pentax (Ricoh) is in at present: > https://youtu.be/xQHAagOFdh4 > A camera to impress your photo colleagues. > Not a camera for me though as my photo subjects will get scared by the > scarlet rouge colour. A typical collectors' item, just like the all black K3. Never meant to take photos with. But if it helps them to make money then they sure have my blessing. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 9:33 AM Steve Cottrell <cotty@seeingeye.tv> wrote: > Sadly, that happened to me back in 2003. Canon and Nikon were bringing out > consumer level DSLRs. The Canon D60 (6mp) cost me 3000 GBP back in the days > when I was earning good money. Kept and used some Pentax lenses, but my > last Pentax cameras were MXs and an LX! > > I wanted desperately for Pentax to release the MZ-D but alas, it never > came…. > > Never went back, sadly. Although my wife still uses an original *ist D > that I occasionally have to persuade into operation for her… > > Hope all well, > > Cotty > If Pentax had released the MZ-D back in 2002/2003, the company would have failed right then and there, probably with no white knight to save them. As it was it cost them dearly and they never recovered. Kyocera tried to build a Contax around the same chip and it killed them. The sensor didn’t work. bill

On 16-Jul-22 05:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > Never went back, sadly. Thus initiating the cataclysm of Pentax? Alan C

On Sun., Jul. 17, 2022, 10:45 a.m. Alan C, <cole@lantic.net> wrote: > > On 16-Jul-22 05:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Never went back, sadly. > Thus initiating the cataclysm of Pentax? > The cataclysm of Pentax started in the mid to late 1980s. bill >

Yeah, but we're still gonna' blame Cotty for it. On 7/17/2022 1:29 PM, Bill wrote: > On Sun., Jul. 17, 2022, 10:45 a.m. Alan C, <cole@lantic.net> wrote: > >> >> On 16-Jul-22 05:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >>> Never went back, sadly. >> Thus initiating the cataclysm of Pentax? >> > > The cataclysm of Pentax started in the mid to late 1980s. > > bill > -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com