Pentax sold to Ricoh

[Transit]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7I10G620110701

Might help the marketing
Pete

[snoid]

Pentax is dead!
Long live Pentax!!!!!!!!

The press release.

http://www.hoya.co.jp/english/news/l...0000001fwi.pdf

[Photo-John]

I saw the news this morning. An interesting development for sure.

[Radco]

My old K1000 keeps on ticking, Hopefully Ricoh keeps up the Pentax trend

[Romphotog]

I knew Pentax will go the way of Minolta very soon. I just dont see Pentax surviving in the DSLR market; and their P&S cameras dont add value over Canon, Olympus, Nikon, Fuji, Sony, etc.

Now that Fuji and Oly use SD, Sony has dropped MS, I expect bigger share of the market by them. Kodak exited the DSLR market a few years back, Sony took over Minolta, now a little known brand takes over a major player... Canon and Nikon will soon be the only survivors.