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Good point, Alex. The sum total is that Shutterbug's testing didn't review the KP's RAW files, which is an obviously huge omission. i mean given its readership (pretty lowbrow) I can understand ...

They have to balance the Apple iPhone coverage with something Windiows-positive.

IBID. Alex, you're too quick to dismiss the mirrorless requests.

Oh please. This camera is just a tech demonstrator. If you want to do Ricoh a favor, tell them to release new Pentax lenses and an updated GR. The firm's main customer base couldn't care less about ...

If you're a GR shooter and enjoy it, the K1 will be a more compatible  and compelling transition. The versatility will be appreciated (weather proof and better ergonomics ) and the lens selection ...

That's a great point about the controls in Picktorial. They're a lcrude feeling when they should be more refined. The processing is great but it feels oftentimes like you're using a hammer rather ...

I mostly shoot with manual full frame film-era primes on digital. I've found that current samyang and lensbaby primes are good third party supplements. Irix, also in k-mount, aren't bad either.

That's the bottom line on this report. The rest about losses or negative profits is splitting hairs.

Very strange logic. Foreign to any business I've ever worked in.

Absolutely not, chief. If you make x amount of dollars in 2016, and less in 2017, that's a loss. You can say it's relative to x but it's still less than previously earned.

I totally understand the impulse to downplay the losses, Alex and Anthony. It's bad news, particularly for Pentax users. But a 41% drop though is a 41% drop. That's serious and from any business ...

Drop the K-01 bashing please. It was a fine camera and reconciled the k mount to mirrorless well for a first generation camera. If the k-01 had a more aesthetically pleasing body design it would ...

Yes, any effort at rebooting the Pentax mirrorless endeavor has to acknowledge what was done right by Pentax and Ricoh in the past: The K-01 and the GXR. Both have positive legacies as cameras and ...

The K-01 did a perfectly good job of reconciling the k-mount to a smaller mirrorless body. It was just an unappealing body design in markets outside Japan. It would be a terrible mistake to not ...

Exactly on the pricing tip. The GXR was simply too expensive. Ironically it was the last Pentax-Ricoh camera system I can remember sering on shelves in big box European retailers like FNAC and ...

I'll have to respectfully disagree Alex. I do think it was inspired by the Ricoh design. Particularly after handling the Ricoh and being a KP owner.

Bingo! KR it is. My dad still has an original KR5. The design lineage is unmistakable. First time I'd seen the influence of a Ricoh body on a Pentax K-series DSLR.

I'd buy that. One of the reasons why I sold my GXR is because there was no K-mount module. I replaced it with a GR instead.

That's absolutely correct. The majority of photos uploaded to Flickr and Instagram are from iPhones. Apple doesn't have a majority of the market for smartphones but it dominates the mobile...

Nine out of ten professional photographers use Macs for editing and processing. This had been the case for over two decades. Apple has made some mistakes with their ports recently but that's not a...