This tells me your a greedy bugger!

'

I remember when Vimto was a decent bottled drink....
before they started using cans

Good for eliminating that out of sorts feeling!
(So it claimed)

http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=5129
.

How to Announce Nothing by Thom Hogan

http://www.gearophile.com/newsviews/how-to-announce-nothing.html

'

I hope they don't change, but if they intend to it would be
better to do it from day 1 rather than in 12 months time
just like Samsung did when they dropped the GX20

The K-01 was a flop mostly because people thought the body
was too deep, so something with a shorter registration distance
is needed, plus incorporating TWO mechanical iris stopdown
mechanisms in each body and lens must be expensive and take
up room. Most other makes have more electrical contacts
available and the Pz contacts used for SDM restrict the
diameter of lens elements that can be used.

Pride of place on the Pentax website has been given to the
GR. They have discontinued the GRX even though some modules
were only released in the last 12 months or so. They may
want to bring out a GRX replacement to use the same lenses
as the DSLR's (or maybe they won't ).

They never mentioned any intention of bringing out a K module
for the GRX which to me sounds like they aren't too keen on
the K mount. Possibly a K to Leica adapter would work... I
don't know

Ricehigh sums this up quite well in the comments on his
blog when someone else asked why they did it and he replied
that it had to do with political correctness and Ricoh is the
master and everything else is not important

I would be very surprised if they don't rebrand the cameras
and would like to see the K mount kept, but the temptation
must be there to change the mount. They would never have a
better chance.

A Ricoh camera is already in the top slot on the Pentax site...
http://www.pentax.co.uk/en/digital-compact.html

They can't run two brands side by side like that
Looks a bit like Argos...


'

He caught that action on the next shot!

Nice one Alan.

'

Maybe it's a new company...... hoypenric

So the next models a Marmite K-5i Turbo and we all become
Marmiteicians


http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.uk seems to be still
available www.ricoh-imaging.com is parked since
the 11th June 2013 ????

'

"History:
2013 Since beginning of the year, PENTAX RICOH's machine vision
products are RICOH branded, to emphasize RICOH's attention to
the machine vision industry."

http://security-systems.pentax.co.uk/

Notice the name on the camera and the Ricoh FA Lenses

Expect a new camera to be announced shortly.......

Ricoh K-5i

The cost of all this name changing not to mention management
time would have been better spent on R&D

Edit: From the US Forum "Ricoh Americas has retired the IKON brand name" link

'

Because if they want to compete with Nikon and Canon they need
to be seen in a similar light using just the brand name Pentax.
Keep it simple..... they already made that decision in the
70's when they dropped Asahi.

Mitsubishi actually own Nikon but they (Misubishi) don't try
make themselves visible on the camera side. link

Canon originally called something like Seikiko-gaku kenkyu-sho Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd. also keep it simple
http://www.canon.co.uk/About_us/

Even Leica have long since stopped using Leitz.
They were actually owned by Wild Leitz AG until
the 1994 management buyout. Wild Leitz AG still
own the Leica name and a small share in the camera
business.
http://uk.leica-camera.com/photography/

Now anyone wanting the Pentax website has to look for
Ricoh Imaging UK Ltd.

I still haven't got over them changing JIF to CIF

'