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Pentax spits in the FACE of the entrenched Japanese planned-obsolescence
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:00:26 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote: Get your K1 and for $550, Pentax will upgrade it (including badges) to a new K1II. https://www.dpreview.com/news/216279...ark-ii-for-550 How long is Pentax going to stay in business? Almost no 3d party lenses is not a good sign. |
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Pentax spits in the FACE of the entrenched Japanese planned-obsolescence
On 2018-02-22 03:15:23 +0000, Bill W said:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:00:26 -0800 (PST), RichA wrote: Get your K1 and for $550, Pentax will upgrade it (including badges) to a new K1II. https://www.dpreview.com/news/216279...ark-ii-for-550 How long is Pentax going to stay in business? Almost no 3d party lenses is not a good sign. The last time I checked it seemed like most Pentax lenses was rebranded Tokinas. That might have changed. Let's remember Pentax for the affordable cameras in the sixties and the often stellar Takumars lenses they made to go with them... -- teleportation kills |
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Pentax spits in the FACE of the entrenched Japanese planned-obsolescence
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:42:36 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote: On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 22:15:28 UTC-5, Bill W wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:00:26 -0800 (PST), RichA wrote: Get your K1 and for $550, Pentax will upgrade it (including badges) to a new K1II. https://www.dpreview.com/news/216279...ark-ii-for-550 How long is Pentax going to stay in business? Almost no 3d party lenses is not a good sign. Screw Tamron and underdog Tokina, they hardly represent much in the way of 3rd party lenses. They are the ones who refuse to make lenses for brands other than Canon, Nikon and a smattering of Sony. It's Sigma that I worry about. They used to include Pentax mounts with all their offerings, but not any more. |
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Pentax spits in the FACE of the entrenched Japanese planned-obsolescence
On 2018-02-22 09:13:48 +0000, Bill W said:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:42:36 -0800 (PST), RichA wrote: On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 22:15:28 UTC-5, Bill W wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:00:26 -0800 (PST), RichA wrote: Get your K1 and for $550, Pentax will upgrade it (including badges) to a new K1II. https://www.dpreview.com/news/216279...ark-ii-for-550 How long is Pentax going to stay in business? Almost no 3d party lenses is not a good sign. Screw Tamron and underdog Tokina, they hardly represent much in the way of 3rd party lenses. They are the ones who refuse to make lenses for brands other than Canon, Nikon and a smattering of Sony. It's Sigma that I worry about. They used to include Pentax mounts with all their offerings, but not any more. They are smelling the blood in the water. They make cameras too, you know... ;-ppp -- teleportation kills |
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Pentax spits in the FACE of the entrenched Japaneseplanned-obsolescence
On 2/22/2018 2:42 AM, RichA wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 22:15:28 UTC-5, Bill W wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:00:26 -0800 (PST), RichA wrote: Get your K1 and for $550, Pentax will upgrade it (including badges) to a new K1II. https://www.dpreview.com/news/216279...ark-ii-for-550 How long is Pentax going to stay in business? Almost no 3d party lenses is not a good sign. Screw Tamron and underdog Tokina, they hardly represent much in the way of 3rd party lenses. They are the ones who refuse to make lenses for brands other than Canon, Nikon and a smattering of Sony. I was not aware of any law or rule, moral or legislated, saying that a manufacturer and/or distributor of camera lenses cannot make economic decisions. How is that decision causing a negative impact on society. -- PeterN |
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Pentax spits in the FACE of the entrenched Japanese planned-obsolescence
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RichA wrote: How long is Pentax going to stay in business? Almost no 3d party lenses is not a good sign. Screw Tamron and underdog Tokina, they hardly represent much in the way of 3rd party lenses. nonsense. tamron & tokina make some very good lenses, and unlike sigma, they don't fall apart. They are the ones who refuse to make lenses for brands other than Canon, Nikon and a smattering of Sony. there aren't enough customers to justify bothering. |
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Pentax spits in the FACE of the entrenched Japanese planned-obsolescence
On 2018-02-22 16:40:01 +0000, nospam said:
nonsense. tamron & tokina make some very good lenses, and unlike sigma, they don't fall apart. any recent evidence for that that ain't anecdotal? -- teleportation kills |
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Pentax spits in the FACE of the entrenched Japanese planned-obsolescence
In article , android
wrote: nonsense. tamron & tokina make some very good lenses, and unlike sigma, they don't fall apart. any recent evidence for that that ain't anecdotal? lensrentals.com had several reliability reports of which lenses were the most trouble, citing sigma as being the worst to the point where they refused to carry sigma lenses when another maker had a similar lens. some simga lenses were dead on arrival from sigma, never having been rented to anyone, and when lensrentals contacted sigma for repairs, sigma said user damage. sigma ultimately forced lensrentals to take most of those reports down. some older sigma lenses were held together with tape: https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/top...lp-1193/p-0#co mm_5543 On another Sigma lens I had, the front part came loose, and the lens wouldn't focus. I discovered that it was attached not by screws, but by some sort of double-sided tape! |
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