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Raphael Mabo said:
But the management style of Pentax Corp was more traditional than Hoya. Hoya has a flatter structure that supports wild ideas - like the colour schemes for K-x and K-r.

Hoya is an imaging and optical company, the leading maker of optical glass in Japan. Lots of synergy between Hoya and Pentax. Quite logical that the maker of the optical glass and the producer of the lenses are the same company.
But Hoya was not a producer of cameras.
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Hoya is also a business-to-business company. Not a consumer goods company.

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Seems like the Q would compete with the GRX. Maybe the whole launch was geared to getting Ricoh to sign the papers after which they can do what they want with the product line.

Thank you
Russell
 
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110702D01JFA18.htm

" Ricoh hopes to grow its camera operations by integrating the sales channels that Pentax has built up over the years primarily in the U.S. and Europe with its own, and by taking the offensive in China and other emerging markets. With a focus on leveraging Pentax's SLR technologies, Ricoh targets 100 billion yen in annual sales from digital cameras in three years, almost double their combined sales at present. It hopes to turn digital cameras into a key business behind its office products. "

Good to hear. :)
 
The first Camera I ever used was a Ricoh (still have it).
I have used pentax but I am currently a Nikon user.

I hope that this is a good thing for Pentax and it's users. Competition is good for everyone.



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pocoman said:
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110702D01JFA18.htm

" Ricoh hopes to grow its camera operations by integrating the sales channels that Pentax has built up over the years primarily in the U.S. and Europe with its own, and by taking the offensive in China and other emerging markets. With a focus on leveraging Pentax's SLR technologies, Ricoh targets 100 billion yen in annual sales from digital cameras in three years, almost double their combined sales at present. It hopes to turn digital cameras into a key business behind its office products. "

Good to hear. :)
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That makes me a lot happier about this deal: might Ricoh be about to 'do a Sony'? (i.e. use financial/business muscle from an entirely unrelated product line to rebuild a DSLR brand)

Another quote from that page:
pocoman said:
and will also transfer its own camera business to the unit
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That, to me, sounds like the Pentax name is well and truly safe and will in fact become the brand name for all of Ricoh's cameras (i.e. no more 'Ricoh' logo'd compacts, GXRs etc. ?)
 
Ricoh is virtually unheard of in south central Utah. in the 84718 ZIP code, you would be hard pressed to find someone that knows a Ricoh from a recough. i bet pockets of Ricoh-ignorant people exist in other areas. we need to map them!

we could map the parts of the world that have heard of Ricoh. this should help people know if they should worry. if you live in a Ricoh-aware zone then no troubles.

you have gotten us started with Russia. what color should we use to mark places such as Russia and 84718
ogl said:
Some of smart people said here before that HOYA would sell Pentax in 2-3 years after purchase...

Ricoh is almost unknown company in Russia and rather marginal photo brand in the world...

I don't see good future of Pentax...
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if Ricoh grows things in a way Pentax people like. more people want a mirrorless system (more than a few years ago). but, may still want an SLR. Ricoh may not see the need to continue with an SLR. if they move to mirrorless only, why maintain K mount ? who knows ?
Katsura said:
Hoya never wanted the Camera business and they were never generous on funding R&D projects in Pentax.

(Which is utterly stupid IMO, They are a glass manufactuer at their most basic level, think of the synergy they can have with the camera div if they wanted to grow/ expand it).

Ricoh, on the other hand is looking into a way to EXPAND their consumer market presence. They are the do-ers and they have the ambition to grow Pentax.
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No, Panasonic is fine:
9-((9-7)*2)=5
peppermonkey said:
007peter said:
I hope Richoh + Pentax will create a new company name. Something that is only 5 LETTER LONG:
  • CANON (5 letters) = success
  • NIKON (5 letters) = success
  • MINOLTA (7 letters) = failed
  • PENTAX (6 letters) = struggling
  • OLYMPUS (6 letters) = also struggling, but new EP3 + Lite seem hopeful
  • SONY (4 letters) = doing alright
Call me superstitious, but FIVE LETTERS is the way to go in imaging business.
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Oh my, than what about Panasonic? If 7 letters means fail, does 9 letters mean ubber fail? Lol.

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Tan68 said:
if Ricoh grows things in a way Pentax people like. more people want a mirrorless system (more than a few years ago). but, may still want an SLR. Ricoh may not see the need to continue with an SLR. if they move to mirrorless only, why maintain K mount ? who knows ?
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Ricoh would have to be crazy to give up on the D-SLR now. It is a format that is still in high demand, and also it is the only profitable line of products that Pentax Imaging has. In addition, the D-SLR is the main technology that Pentax brings to Ricoh. If they toss the K mount D-SLR aside, they will alienate the vast majority of current Pentax users, who will abandon ship en masse. Ricoh will then find themselves right where they were before, except for owning the Pentax brand name and it's employees. Perhaps mirrorless cameras are the wave of the future, but they have yet to prove themselves as substitutes for a top level D-SLR. My guess is that the K-mount D-SLR will survive for at least one to two more generations and perhaps much longer.

I say this as one who has a moderate investment in top level Pentax lenses, which I do not want to see orphaned. I speak from personal experience, having previously been a user of Contax film cameras, a truly great line of products that Kyocera euthanized, simply because they could not manage the transition from film to digital. Believe me, that was an unpleasant experience that I do not want to repeat.. If Ricoh does the same with the Pentax D-SLRs, this time I will migrate to Nikon, a company with real staying power. Hopefully, that will not be necessary.

Rob
 
i agree with you and for the same reasons.
Robgo2 said:
Ricoh would have to be crazy to give up on the D-SLR now. It is a format that is still in high demand, and also it is the only profitable line of products that Pentax Imaging has. In addition, the D-SLR is the main technology that Pentax brings to Ricoh. If they toss the K mount D-SLR aside, they will alienate the vast majority of current Pentax users, ...
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I will be happy if Ricoh can get Pentax cameras back in stores where people can see and handle them. Most people I know think Pentax went out of business two or three years ago when they disappeared from almost all camera stores, at least here in the US.

Tom
 
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