not impresed

I was there from 1pm on Sunday. Spoke to two forum members. Stewart from Pentax let me play with the fisheye and the 100 wr that I want. The 100 was his own lens. Perhaps we should have a badge with Pentax foum members on ( maybe we would get discounts!)

Hi caj26. I was the one you spoke to, bald, fat, and a beard. I also spoke to RobL. There was supposed to be a few more of us there at 1.00PM 'sh. Did you get your 100nmm??
CHEERS Vic.

Not yet. LCE were selling them for £349!

bad impresion thats 2 members of the team and a custome on his own

That's Stewart with my lens, I am trying out the 10-17 lens. Part of the problem was they weren't selling, only showing. They wore pink Sunday, orange Saturday.( See John Riley's picture)

i did notice that when you asked a price and you said is that a show price it was a no

On another forum that I'm a member on when we do have get togethers quite a few ppl wear badges with there username and first name.

If you weren't impressed with this years you would have hated last years! 1 tiny stand attached to another companies. So for me this years stand was a massive step forward.

Should not really say this but there was good offers going on with nikon cameras

Dave

SRS lists 40 Pentax K-mount lenses.

Let 'em walk.

I have to admit, I thought it was brilliant to see Ricoh at the show...
I am however very disappointed with the very negative attitude of forum members...
I was there on Monday, very busy day. I was told the busiest of the show.
The guys on stand never had a minute to spare!
A constant stream of people wanting to play and ask about the 645Z, as well as the other kit.
I spent a long time on the stand and I must say, the staff members handled it all very well. If anything, even I got annoyed with people asking questions that they knew they would not get an answer to!!!! Or asking questions that were overly technical and would not be information I would expect these guys to know.
Lets put it all into perspective, I know for a fact (from talking to the staff), Ricoh Imaging (or Pentax as we like to call them) have 7, full time employees in the UK. 7 !! yes 7!! That includes a guy that joined only two weeks ago....Sorry, cant remember his name.
I have a good friend that owns a successful camera business and I know this to be true.
So, Thanks Ricoh, from me, and I am sure others for being at the Photography Show.
The stand might not have been the biggest, or the most interesting to look at. But I got what I wanted out of it and I hope you are there next year.
I also hope you continue to develop great kit for me to buy....
Oh, and by the way, LCE were selling at the show for Pentax....some great deals on virtually everything.....so for people to moan about no show deals....not true...maybe you should have looked at one of the leaflets on the stand that have all the show specials......I was handed one by a very helpful chap when we were having a chat.....
And yes....I did buy as well.

problem is when they walk it meens pentax price gose up and to be honest they are not cheap
you dont get the range
and the customer base will get smaller as we all get older
and just like the little independant camera shops who know there product which thinking about it was where the main pentax customer was based as also gone

Over a period of 39 years I worked for 3 British machine tool companies which exported machinery all over the world.(Just like Pentax, Ricoh) We trained our agents to demonstrate, service and sell our machines. When it was time for exhibitions of which there were many we would always have a presence on the agents stand. Sometimes only one of us sometimes two. There were times when we had the MD, the Sales Manager and two of us at places like the big Westech show in Chicago. Surely it's not too much to ask for Pentax to send at least one representative to a show in the UK where they have quite a good customer base. There were other Chinese and Japanese stands with their reps on board who could answer any question you threw at them.
CHEERS Vic.

No. Pentax will sell more, and the price will (should!) go down.

40 Pentax lenses, plus existing independents. How many do you want?

Our age has nothing to do with it, and the cusomer base is increasing.

That is nothing to do with Pentax. The Internet is the cuplrit here.

G

I believe Pentax had a European and Japanese representative for some time at the show. Also they had a number of demonstrators and ALL the UK staff.
Also, a modern Japanese corporate in the technology sector is a different animal to most industries...especially the business you where in.
I am sure they would rather sell the kit themselves, but I believe this is not allowed at the show.