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stevenjay5
Posted 21/04/2013 - 15:45 Link
I noticed a colleague of mine using his camera for work purposes recently... Blew me away when I saw it was a Pentax... Only Pentax user I know!
dangie
Posted 21/04/2013 - 16:12 Link
A Pentax user spotting another Pentax user is like a twitcher spotting a Capercaillie in Hyde Park. Magazine covers adorned with Canon and Nikon will promote Pentax entering the endangered species list.
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davidstorm
Posted 21/04/2013 - 17:08 Link
I saw two near to York Minster this morning - a K30 in a fetching burgundy and a K-r in black.

As normal I lost count of the Canons and Nikons.

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gartmore
Posted 21/04/2013 - 17:25 Link
I think I've spotted more Leicas than Pentaxes lately.
Ken
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Smeggypants
Posted 21/04/2013 - 17:46 Link
MrB wrote:
Smeggypants wrote:

If I ever go for a colonoscopy I shall demand to be Probed By Pentax™
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Could this be another field of imaging technology in which Pentax start at the bottom and work their way up?

Philip

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johnha
Posted 22/04/2013 - 21:28 Link
It's been a while since I last saw a Pentax in the wild, but at least I'm seeing them in shops again. It seems that Pentax had good reason to release the 560mm, it makes it easier for us to get shots of other Pentax users

In order to stop double-counting, maybe we need PU caps (or better still straps) or some secret gesture?
AndrewA
Posted 22/04/2013 - 22:49 Link
We were in North Wales this weekend and I saw a chap in Criccieth with a Pentax around his neck.

I saw a guy with an MX film camera at Ladybower earlier this month but before that the last time I saw a Pentax in the wild was in Castleton last year.

Not being one of the crowd though is great, I would however not be adverse to there being a few more of us.
Andrew

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Dodge69
Posted 23/04/2013 - 10:25 Link
I usually see a few during the (Edinburgh) festivals in the summer, saw a bunch last year during the jazz festival in particular.

Regards marketing and advertising, as mentioned with Sony, Pentax maybe wasting their time.

I'd say 'build it and they will come', and I'd optimistically speculate the K30 & K5 are quietly doing just that.
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K10D
Posted 23/04/2013 - 12:22 Link
Should we start a Billy No Mates user group???

Best regards
pixels don't make pictures
RalphHardwick
Posted 23/04/2013 - 17:34 Link
K10D wrote:
Should we start a Billy No Mates user group???

Best regards

You can't. As soon as the second person joined you'd have to rename the group
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aliengrove
Posted 23/04/2013 - 18:33 Link
I've seen quite a few Pentax cameras in Japan, mainly in Osaka. The KR, especially the coloured versions, seems quite popular there. Yet to see a Q in the wild though.
bettyswolloks
Posted 23/04/2013 - 19:45 Link
Saw a Kr and an X5 while at the Harry Potter studio tour thing at the weekend and a pentax lens strap round the neck of a fella near SRS, don't know what he had on the end of it though.
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jemx99
Posted 23/04/2013 - 20:35 Link
Maybe all of us on the forum could visit the same beauty spot on the same day - we'd then spot lot's of other Pentax users and imagine the look on Canon / Nikon owner's faces when they see they are out numbered!
Edited by jemx99: 23/04/2013 - 20:35
JAK
Posted 23/04/2013 - 20:55 Link
jemx99 wrote:
Maybe all of us on the forum could visit the same beauty spot on the same day - we'd then spot lot's of other Pentax users and imagine the look on Canon / Nikon owner's faces when they see they are out numbered!

Back in the 70s & 80s it was like that.

John K
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