Knuckledragger

I gave this some thought while I was driving across the state this evening. Two important points: 1. All digital cameras are ultimately disposable. All of them. 2. The best camera is the one in your hands. That might sound a bit cliche, but 5 years of shooting with a DSLR has proved both points to me many times over. If you need to get back into photography, almost any camera is a good start. If you have glass that fits the Pentax mount, then find one of their entry level DSLRs that will work with your lenses and go. Spend less, not more, realizing that this camera is only going to be temporary. Mike Johnson, aka The Online Photographer, made an excellent post about starting in digital photography. It doesn't exactly apply to your situation, but it's a good read and has a lot of valuable information in it. Especially the part about buying a new monitor.

True dat, but Hoya is keeping the medical division of Pentax. While I doubt it's worth $875M, said division is quite profitable and owns a lot of valuable tech.

Oh, snap. Steam Summer sale means the motto of a certain other headphone site becomes very true over here.* *As I have said before, Head-Case has cost me many thousands of dollars more than that other place and I always felt my skin more abraded over there by the creepily enforced artificial niceness.

Tentatively, I'd say yes. Ricoh has made some neat compact digital cameras in the last few years, and some cross pollination with Pentax's DSLR line will most likely be mutually beneficial.

Putting this here as I don't think it's worthy of its own thread. Reddit thread purportedly from an ex-Data Robotics employee, including a dump of internal DR documents. Decompressed mirror of the contents of the archive. Redditors in the thread thusfar seem to think there isn't much scandalous in it. In fact, if one digs deep enough in the thread, there appears to be fair number of happy Drobo users. The whole thing seems more than a bit suspect to me, but I have not gone through the documents. For whatever reason, the docs include this:

Ricoh set to acquire Pentax camera brand and business, get serious about digital imaging Whoa.

Another Reap Oast.

Crappy birthday, Happy Jones!

Assuredly a reap oast, but a worthy one.