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Pentax Film Project

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Overrank
Overrank Senior Member • Posts: 5,461
Re: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

James O'Neill wrote:

tonybelding wrote:

If no one else will say it. . .

It sounds to me like the message is that Ricoh are "Stupid, Stupid, Stupid" for investigating the possibility of producing something that's not what James O'Neill ordered.

I, on the other hand, am interested in seeing what they come up with.

Planning to buy it ? A film camera for what $2000 ? $5000 like the Leica ?

This isn't "investigating a possibility", a reliable source (Asahi man) has said they've made pre-prod models, so they've put development resources into working on it instead of a digital camera, or new lenses.

Someone must have some data about how much film is being sold, so there is some way to gauge the market.

Best estimate we could come up with was that Kodak sold around 15 million rolls a year (up to 30 million rolls as an upper bound) - https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4616793

But that video talks about young people a lot. We're talking people who might shoot a few dozen rolls a year, enjoying using 30 or 40 year old technology. How many of them can dip in their pockets for $2K, even if they want a new camera - because part of the fun is using something OLD.

They could produce something magnificent which sells next to nothing. At the expense of other things that you or I might buy.

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