Pictures speak louder than words!
Went quick in the end, quite a nice item, may become a collectors piece...

It's the line that says "Pentax name will certainly not be disappearing from existing product lines" that's ambiguous to me, maybe they'll go all electronic? Leave the "Traditional"/existing products with Pentax on the front and as the all new come out replace them with Ricoh, so maybe a couple of years down the line they'll have an all Ricoh line-up?
We're talking EVF On Chip Focus, No Mirror,some new sensor tech, (XTrans might be nice?) and maybe just maybe, lots of focus points too? To be honest would it be all that bad? As soon as an EVF can show me exactly what the sensor sees and the rear screen show me and adobe RGB view, (I Think Panasonic's just (NEARLY)done that with the GX7?)
I'll throw OVF into the bin and spit on it frankly.


Then there's the potential bad stuff like new mount, lens incompatibility, lack of support, no new firmware, low re-sale value, that I just don't really want to think about!

I do that too with mine, rarely get to shoot with him now, when he ran the Jessops in Sunderland we'd get out regularly, now it's with the missus or not at all really.

Good one!

Read that Algi, it's kinda what got me thinking.
To me at least the old phrase "what's in a name?" doesn't apply, I like the name the way it is...
Old-fashioned maybe?

I'm shooting a lot more since I came back to Pentax/Ricoh/Whatever.
Enjoying my gear more and I very much want it to stay that way, I'm not fretting, not yet anyway...

Phil, my other half tells me that my mind is always empty!

She has no patience tohugh and I must admit that when I get to where I'm going on my Fell Walks I sort of have a plan but when I get there I like to sit for a while and "take in the atmosphere" as I like to call it. This is the bit my other half doesn't get.
"Why don't you just take a picture for gods sake!"
"I'm waiting..."
"What for?"
"The light."
"O.F.F.S. I'LL SEE YOU AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL!"

Always felt the same way John but then I spend most of my time at F8 and above and it just goes dark in there!

Just asking? (Tongue firmly in cheek)
Seriously how do you see this panning out?
Personally I feel Ricoh would be daft to take the name off the front of the higher end stuff but Sony did it to Konica Minolta Branding, although the change to Konica ownwership had already diluted that brand. I feel Pentax is a strong name but the way Ricoh use the phrase "Pentax cameras will continue to be produced, and that the Pentax name will certainly not be disappearing from existing product lines", is very ambiguos, typically Japanese in fact...
And before anyone starts, I know it's just the name on the front but it's a proud name and I'm proud of it...

Thank you Phillip!
The Lake District Micro climate can always be relied on for the drama! Crummock Water is sandwiched between Borrowdale and Ennerdale and I think they are the wettest places in England...