Pentax division of Ricoh to absorb the Ricoh Camera divsion
Ricoh reshuffle sees Pentax take control of cameras: Digital Photography Review
Ricoh reshuffle sees Pentax take control of cameras: Digital Photography Review
Ricoh did not buy Pentax just to allow Pentax to close down the Ricoh brand.
I'm thinking along the same line. Otherwise, it would be like paying for a suicide
Blergh. They couldnt even do that with the K-01GXR body with built in EVF.
Hmm... GXR module that takes Pentax lenses? Now thats something I *would* be interested in. No idea if its even possible though.
Me too. I have a GXR which I bought primarily to use with my Leica lenses but I am a longstanding Pentax user and still have a K-5 DSLR and a fair number of lenses including some of the very compact but high quality DA Limited lenses.
A Pentax KA2 mount module would be quite difficult and expensive to make if it provided AF with both screw drive and SDM but as Ricoh now own Pentax they have access to all the Pentax technology and patents so it should be possible. It would at a stroke provide the GXR with a full range of compact primes (the Limited series) and also zooms though they might look rather incongruously large in relation to the compact GXR body.
Just saw in amateur photographer magazine this week that ricoh/pentax are bringing out a pentax module for the ricoh GXR . I would definitly be interested as I have a lot of pentax lenses which I used on my GF1 and they were sharper than the panasonic lenses.