Comments on OK1000 Pentax Blog: Pentax K-m/K2000 Designer's Notes: Masaaki Haga, P...

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It is an interesting read. Unforunately, through t...

2009-03-18T15:19:43.619-04:00

It is an interesting read. Unforunately, through the lines, the same old Pentax thinking is visible, as was in the past: Pentax design is not only made in Japan, it is aimed at the Japanese market.

I never forget the Digibino (integrated binocular with digicam) which I was shown at a Photokina. Nice - but unusable for almost any non-Asian person, because the separation between the eyes was not adjustable and by far too narrow for the average European/Caucasian. I could not use it and nobody else "in the rest of the World" could, too. You could get them nearly for free for years after, because they were unsaleable.

If asking the internal female staff is the design principle of Pentax, well - that explains a lot, unfortunately.

Thanks from a 30 years Pentax user for that insight!

Great work as always. Good to see some new article...

2008-10-21T02:03:17.537-04:00

Great work as always. Good to see some new articles. Thanks :-)

Great article Michael.It just reminds me once agai...

2008-10-15T17:24:32.114-04:00

Great article Michael.

It just reminds me once again on how intimate the relationship between Pentax users and Pentax "The Company" can be. I had a post on my blog last February entitled: "Owning a Pentax DSLR is more like being part of a family". You can't reach a Ned Bunnell, a Michelle Martin or a Chris Pound and all of the other Pentax personel with the other DSLR makers. Pentax is my photography family, along with all the Pentaxians out there.

Best Regards,

Yvon Bourque

Pentax coordinated with the three designers in Jap...

2008-10-15T09:35:48.073-04:00

Pentax coordinated with the three designers in Japan and prepared the original text internally, which I've helped translate and edit for English. All three "notes" (design, electronics, and mechanical) may have appeared already overseas in Japanese, but I believe this is the first publication in the US, because Pentax was aware that I was asking into the design process for the K-m. Pentax has very kindly allowed me to publish the notes in their entirety.

Excellent article, Michael and I do like it! Looki...

2008-10-15T08:52:13.507-04:00

Excellent article, Michael and I do like it! Looking forward for your second part and third part of the interview. Is in the third part the electronics engineer will speak, after tomorrow's published interview with the mechanical engineer?

Besides, just quite curious to know who actually arranged/conducted the interview, doing the translation and where and when for the interview? Mind sharing with us?