Pentax Ricoh future

I could understand pulling the shots where the camera is on the sand or has sand on it. Sand would get into the moving parts of the zoom and focus ring. It may not get inside the camera but it could jam things up and make the zoom feel gritty.

The other 'general' shots were fine though.

more likely to get into the shutter release button and jam it..
but..
why not pull all ads of cars that have windsheilds? esp suv's which might get driven off road or on gravel.....you know just driving around, a stone could chip or crack the windsheild and since it is illegal to drive with a crack in drivers feild of view, the car obviously isn't fit to drive and shouldn't be sold until they have a chip proof windsheild to protect the windsheild....

Is society as a whole really getting so dumb that we need to have such debates?
if so, shouldn't we be more worried about letting these people drive than selling them cameras?

Possibly could be deemed as mis-representative / misleading images - "Your ad showed it in the sand, so I thought it would be OK, mine got sand in it and now it doesn't work" etc. Dunno.

But even then, why pull all of them? I must say I quite liked them as images.

Not really a fair comparison though is it .. a camera still selling at £1600 or the K30 which is a brand new model at £600.

For this section of the camera market I think they should be pushing the splashproof/weatherproof bodies because when it comes right down to it Pentax are really no different to Canikon and in some areas still actually lag behind.

What is. Focus peeking? Have I missed something?
CHEERS Vic.

uses visual aid on live veiw to assist with manual focus.....
here is a vid clip showing sony's version along with a brief write up in the video info box...
link

I suppose if you put the camera in the sand upside down, yes... but that really would be dumb!

Yes and Yes!

Thanks Don. CHEERS Vic.

I wonder if there is some cross fertilisation of technologies between Ricoh and Pentax going on. The K30 seems to be the first Pentax with focus peaking. The Ricoh GXR has had a rather nice implementation of peaking for the past three years.

The k-01 was the first Archie, the tech from that has been taken into the k30. But your point probably still stands.

Thanks Will. I have not handled a K-01 as yet so I did not realise that it had focus peaking.

Ricoh GXR users are hoping that some Pentax technology will find its way to the Ricoh side in the form of an interchangeable camera unit that will allow Pentax lenses to be fully usable on the GXR.

I wonder how the K30 affect sales of the K-01? I know they are different beasts but I would imagine most of us who maybe at one time thought about upgrading our older Pentax dslr (K100D's etc) to a K-01 would now prefer the view finder equipped K30.

About focus "PEAKING" I spelt it wrong but I think my way is better as to use it you are "PEEKING"
CHEERS Vic.

Some excellent discussion and info on Focus Peaking here

I'd never heard of the feature before the K-30, but it does look very useful indeed. Focussing at f/1.2 is a right PITA. The viewfinder isn't accurate enough and you have to magnify LV to see the mm DOF