PENTAX SURVIVEL

I i´m PENTAX user in PORTUGAL, and in hear we don´t see so many pupil with pentax camaras, and put this topic to ask, how pentax live and think about the future in to gives us news camaras better then the compettion, because i see the other brands like canon and nikon, dominion the markt of pro DSLR.
Can pentax for a few more years be desapear, or can be a brand of the top?
I like so much of pentax and ask if we have future whith this brand?
For me the new K7 is a good camera, but i think is not so good to compity with the other brands, it´s expensive, and don´t have so many news then the K20d, can pentax realeces a news DSLR in this year?
Maybe i´m rong about this,??????

Hi, and welcome!

Your concerns are ones that a number of people have raised in this Forum, a number of times. The consensus seems to be that Pentax as a brand will continue, and we all hope will continue to be attached to ground breaking, high quality, well priced DSLRs. Looks like Pentax plan to introduce a medium format DSLR later this year, maybe early next, but at the same time Hoya, the parent company, send mixed messages about the future. Guess we all just have to hope and keep our fingers crossed

It's worth browsing the Forum for other similar threads; there's certainly been at least one on this topic in the past month or so.

In the mean time, keep the faith!!

Hi.
Don't expect Pentax to overthrow Canon or Nikon, and Sony will probabily secure number 3 or better.
What does that mean for Pentax? It means that you will get very good quality gear, satisfying the needs of any good photographer but more geared towarsd a niche. What we see with K-7 is a camera for travel, outdoor, or anyone who feels a smaller camera fits them better.
Gear will come more slowly and there are certain professionals whose needs will no be well met by Pentax for a long time.

In Portugal you have ForumFotografia or ZWAME/Fotografia were you can find a few Pentax users, but sure there aren't many...
I'm not sure Pentax is easily available there. For example last time I went back Worten (a big media/electronics store) started given more room for DSLRs and they had a stand just for Sony, nothing else. Fnac (another large media/electronics store) has always had a good section for photography, but dominated by Canon and Nikon.
Naturally people go with the flow...

Don't worry about not having the top brand or the top camera, worry about having the camera you like, need and can afford.

I see many times people stressing in the foruns how Canon and Nikon give you room to go pro and how no other brand has the same possibilities. That is a bogus argument, most people won't go pro, and if they do, then they should be able to do most photographic subjects with any camera.

Pessoalmente, se a Pentax morrer, vou aproveitar e comprar uma K-7 baratinha mais uma lentes e estou bem para bastante tempo. Sem strees.

ola obrigado pela reposta, e verdade a pentax aqui em PORTUGAL , tem poucos adptos, mas existem alguns, nas megas stores so se ve, canon nikon, e sony, olimpus tb ,...
Mas o representante da marca "beltrão coelho" não divulga muito a marca, não se ve publicidade como nas concorrentes,....
Mas apesar disso tudo, eu estou satifeito com a pentax, e sei que a pentax em nas cores tem as + naturais, assim como no detalhe, e única,
continuação de bom dia e , bom fim de semana,....

best regards.

Welcome, NSTANTOS, but do please communicate in English so that we can all share your thoughts.

hi, sorry, i write the other msg, in portuguese, for the other pt,..
thank you for your answer, .
put this topic in here, to know what pentax users, think about the future of pentax, because we see the other brands, on the top, and pentax have good cameras, and not so much pupil use,!
but also pentax has great tecnologie, can we see in a future a pentax pro camera maybe a K1d or other, i think it was great, beacause only canon and nikon, haves the pro markt....
best regards

I don't know very well the story with the K1D, but if Pentax had made it work at that time, it would probably have gotten some more attention from pros and more chance of entering the consideration for purchase.

Nsantos mentions the lack of publicity by the distributor in Portugal, I think this happens almost everywhere. Many people that are not already in photography will be unaware of the brand or may know it from the old days, another name like kodak, fuji, contax or minolta.

Financially I think the lower to middle range is probably the biggest money make right now, after the surge of DSLR buyers. So its a good thing Pentax has come up with good cameras like the KxxD and K-m, but if people dont know about them it hurts sales.
Canon has the advantage of huge name and quality recognition from people coming up from compact digicams, Pentax does not. Executives at Pentax have said their digicam section isn't doing well, and the cams are average or good, but the competition there is large and there are better cameras to choose from (IMO). So... if the compacts market does not give Pentax publicity, there more effort must be put into the DSLRs. Has this happen adequately? I think not.
But I do have the felling that the shear quality of the cameras and the great value they are, has been realised in the forums and this has helped Pentax sales. This is great, but it still falls short I think.

You do not have to be number 1, 2 or even 3 to survive. Look at all the car companies that are around that are not even in the top 20. Subaru do quite well and they are not in the top 5 car sellers.

The main thing for the survival of Pentax is to make sure they are profitable and have at least a reasonable market share, which is about 4-5% at the moment.

hi , ya you have right,it´s true , pentax don´t need be the number 1, or 2, but only be a brand of quality,only be PENTAX,....
it´s like, hasseblade or leica , only some persons haves,......
best regards

I could not agree more.