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From: Rich on 21 May 2010 22:18 On May 21, 12:29 pm, DanP <dan.pe...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 May, 04:32, RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Pentax_unveils_rainbow_DSLR... > > Looks like is made of parts from the bin. > Andy Warhol fans will like it. > > DanP Warhol! Oh God! That means they'll stamp out dozens of copies!!!
From: Paul Heslop on 22 May 2010 03:14 Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Heslop > <paul.heslop(a)blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: > > >it's for Japan only, which means they believe that Japanese people > >will buy anything :O) > > The Japanese market is full of stuff like that. Blinged-up gear that has > a short life, then is yesterday's fashion accessory. If Pentax see a > profitable way of shifting their cameras in their home market, best of > luck to them. I agree, and it makes life interesting for people going there to find these strange things and enjoy them. -- Paul (we break easy) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/
From: Paul Heslop on 22 May 2010 03:16 Rich wrote: > > On May 21, 7:24 pm, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...(a)REMOVEgmail.com> > wrote: > > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > > drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Heslop > > <paul.hes...(a)blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: > > > > >it's for Japan only, which means they believe that Japanese people > > >will buy anything :O) > > > > The Japanese market is full of stuff like that. Blinged-up gear that has > > a short life, then is yesterday's fashion accessory. If Pentax see a > > profitable way of shifting their cameras in their home market, best of > > luck to them. > > Their taste is like their taste in cars. Undergunned, with cheezy, > non-functional wings and scoops, covered with stickers that mean > nothing, etc. Top Gear basically said the japanese can only design cars based on ones which already exist, otherwise they come up with some ugly thing which looks like a committee produced it. I don't know how that stands nowadays but it always struck me when i was younger that their cars were cheaper versions of something already out there. -- Paul (we break easy) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/
From: J. Clarke on 22 May 2010 07:11 On 5/22/2010 3:14 AM, Paul Heslop wrote: > Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: >> >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >> drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Heslop >> <paul.heslop(a)blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: >> >>> it's for Japan only, which means they believe that Japanese people >>> will buy anything :O) >> >> The Japanese market is full of stuff like that. Blinged-up gear that has >> a short life, then is yesterday's fashion accessory. If Pentax see a >> profitable way of shifting their cameras in their home market, best of >> luck to them. > > I agree, and it makes life interesting for people going there to find > these strange things and enjoy them. There is a certain advantage to such a thing. No thief in his right mind would nick it--far, far too easy to identify. The same school of thought that has workmen painting their power tools purple with green polka-dots.
From: Paul Heslop on 22 May 2010 08:45
"J. Clarke" wrote: > > On 5/22/2010 3:14 AM, Paul Heslop wrote: > > Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > >> > >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > >> drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Heslop > >> <paul.heslop(a)blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: > >> > >>> it's for Japan only, which means they believe that Japanese people > >>> will buy anything :O) > >> > >> The Japanese market is full of stuff like that. Blinged-up gear that has > >> a short life, then is yesterday's fashion accessory. If Pentax see a > >> profitable way of shifting their cameras in their home market, best of > >> luck to them. > > > > I agree, and it makes life interesting for people going there to find > > these strange things and enjoy them. > > There is a certain advantage to such a thing. No thief in his right > mind would nick it--far, far too easy to identify. The same school of > thought that has workmen painting their power tools purple with green > polka-dots. :O) has a crazy logic to it. -- Paul (we break easy) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |