Well . . . . .

Well, I never got around to Pentax being the absolute worst.

The truth is that of course they are not the worst. In fact, a manufacturer like Panasonic who has had ver little presence in the DSLR market for example created an entirely new class of camera without a penta prism (more on this later) that I am not sure if they should be counted as a part of that particular segment of the market. Canon and Nikon hold a very strong market share, upto 70% combined, or something like that. So, they may well be the very worst. They may well be the prostitutes of DSLR, whatever that means.

Canikon is what we call them. There are so many of them. My god. Try going to disney land and count how many Nikon and Canon there are. Total brain washing.

Olympus EP-1 is a camera that is sort of like what Panasonic is trying to be the pioneer of. It is a nifty camera. I want one. In fact, if Pentax is not planning on coming out with something like that, I may just buy one. It is based on the format called micro four-thirds.

You cannot survive in this day and age if you don't listen to the consumers. Pentax, obviously understands that, but the different thing about them is that they seem to cherry pick what they want to listen to, and I can see that there are some hard headed guys still holding grounds, not wanting to budge on certain issues. I think that for them these issues come from the aesthetics of photography itself. Japan has a very interesting and amazing history of photography of all genre, and in general, the photographers of Japan are one the most under-rated group of artists you will find in just about anything. These hard headed people probably try to preserve what they think is fading away. This is why they are not in the hurry to dramatically improve auto focus mechanism although many Pentaxians scream about it. I bet you some of the Pentax people probably don't understand why one needs AF to begin with....







Pentax K10D
DA 21mm ltd
1/60 @ f/4
ISO 200