PENTAX/RICOH IMAGING PRODUCTS (Company Visit)

Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. The majority of the company's revenue comes from products, solutions and services that improve the interaction between people and information. Ricoh also produces award-winning digital cameras and specialized industrial products.

Company Mission: " At the Ricoh Group, we are committed to providing excellence to improve the quality of living" 

Company Products:Digital SLR Camera, Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera, Digital Camera Accessories.

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Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company was formed October 1, 2011 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd. to provide more consumer–oriented offerings to the market. The company’s goal is to leverage the tremendous strength and awareness of the Ricoh brand along with the superior technical innovation of Pentax products to deliver a world- class consumer experience. Both PENTAX and RICOH products will remain in the market to reinforce the company’s commitment to the business. RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. remains committed to further strengthening its offerings and presence in the area of consumer camera products and related services.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability initiatives.
Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees.

As we entered at the vicinity, we are required to put-on this Tinkerbell inspired sock, I don't know what really is the purpose but i think to prevent the dust on sticking in the carpet.

Before we start on the company tour, they gave us first a brief  presentation about their companies history and major milestones.

We really enjoy having him as the speaker. He's funny, and somewhat inspire us to do good in our chosen field.

This is the innovative product of PENTAX which seems small than the usual DSLR camera but it has the same capacity and features. They tend to make it small because the size of the usual DSLR is bulgy and it's a hassle for the commuters in Japan to bump to each other that could cause the damaged of the camera.

It's cute, handy, slender and weightless.Perfect for a on the go person.

As you step inside the door of the building you will be mesmerized of their product collections.

This is the latest product of PENTAX, they also include in the display the different hardware materials that the camera was made of. The speaker proudly told us that these components were originally made by their company.

During the presentation the speaker told us that they during the time of crisis in the world which our country was greatly affected, their company brought colors to the world through their cameras which are shaded with different lively colors.

The company visit at PENTAX was ended an opportunity to us to know, discovered and learned their companies way on how to deal with the business world and got a chance to see their laboratory room in where their products was carefully made and assembled.

SIDE TRIPS

ALEGRE GUITARS

One of the many things Cebu is known for are the handmade guitars and there is one king of the hill and that is the Alegre guitar Factory.

In the neighborhood of Abuno in Lapu Lapu City, Mactan you will find many guitar factories and stores.The most well known and probably the most expensive is the Alegre Guitar factory. The factory is currently owned and operated by Fernando Alegre who is himself a professional musician.

Just outside the showroom, a mini souvenir shop is located. Ranges from keychains, bracelets, and miniature of Cebu's products and artifacts. The price is quite expensive than the other souvenir shops in the town.

Once you have checked out the making you enter the showroom where the walls are lined with guitars made by this guitar making family. There are guitars of every type and a section for left handed guitars as well.

The factory, where the guitars are made is outside. Now this may just be for the tourists and a room full of little workers could be hidden away somewhere.









Although I'm not fond of musical instruments and I don't have interest in any musical instruments still I was fascinated on how they made an fully furnished guitar with their bare hands. Especially those guitars on the display area when you tend to buy one, its really worth the expense because the guitars are in its finest.

Basilica del Santo Niño

The Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño de Cebu has always been a part of the religious history of our country since the 16th century. From a small chapel made of native materials built by the early Augustinian missionaries who brought the image of the Sto. Niño to the Philippines in 1521 and, under the leadership of the Spanish friar Andres de Urdaneta, evangelized our forebears, the shrine of the oldest religious icon in the country has become a concrete structure lately elevated to the rank of a “minor basilica” by Pope Paul VI in 1965 on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the Christianization of the Philippines.

My goal during the visit is to lit a candle, because they say that if it's  your first time in a church you can make a wish or by praying for something that you're heart desires. It's an opportunity for me to have this chance to visit  one of the oldest church in the country.

This artifact was made way back during the Spaniards colonization curved was the map of Cebu.

The walls signifies that the church was built hundred years ago but its a miracle that it was not greatly affected during the earthquake last year.

Even for a short period of time I had managed to took a sight on the altar of the church. I was in awe when I saw the altar it's like a wall of gold.









  
The Cross of Magellan is a popular historical landmark and tourist attraction in the middle of busy Magallanes Street. Magellan planted a cross to signify this important event about the propagation of the Roman Catholic faith in what is now Cebu, in central Philippines. The original cross is reputedly encased in another wooden cross for protection, as people started chipping it away in the belief that it had miraculous healing powers. This prompted the government officials to encase it in tindalo wood and secured it inside a small chapel called "kiosk." Some say, however, that the original cross was actually destroyed. The Magellan cross displayed here is said to be a replica of such cross. It is housed in a small chapel located in front of the present city hall of Cebu.

The crypt's ceiling is beautifully painted with a scene depicting the landing of Magellan in Cebu in 1521 and the planting of the original cross on the shore.

Among the devotees it is an old practice to drop coins or put light candles at the foot of the cross.

The three days educational tour in Cebu was tiring yet enjoyable. The tour exposed us in the industry that we will be engaging in a year. As we visited the scheduled companies in the itinerary each of these has departed some knowledge on us. First was the PLDT Innolab the staffs was accommodating and humble they voluntarily tour us around and introduced to us and let us try their products. They let us experienced the Telepresence room that the rent cost for about 15,000 per hour. We also had the chance to visit the MyTv it was just a quick tour the manager let us took pictures and observed the environment.  At RICOH Imaging Products we all should be cautious here, they have their special type of socks ta we need to wear. Tha lady welcomed us with “Oh mamaya na kayo mag picture, diretso sa conference room” with a bossy and irritated tone. The speaker was the paradox of the lady a while ago he’s funny and courageous I thought he will be touring us around but it’s the lady again so during the tour we are all behaved.

 

Then the most awaited Bigfoot experience the international academy for film and television it is where we stayed the longest and it was the main highlight of the tour. We are humbly welcomed by the staff, tour us around the building, showed us their computer laboratory and production room. The equipment used for movie production. They let us stayed in the rooftop and mingled with us for a while and pose for a group photo. We also tried the 6D experience in Crown Regency Hotel, the highest building in the city.

The food was great especially in Pino Restaurant and the ambiance of the place is so Filipino. The unlimited fried egg and tocino for breakfast and the unbeatable menu for lunch the fish fillet. Aside from the company visit we also had the chance to visit some tourist attraction and landmarks, the Alegre guitars, Magellans Cross, Lapu-Lapu Shrine, Taoist Temple it is where I had experienced their way on how to pray to their God’s and San Pedro Calungsod church. For me the Cebu experience will not be complete without the visit to the Basilica del Sto. Nino and I was lucky to witness the holiness of the church even in a short period of time. As we travel along the streets, I can tell that this place purely historical aside from Lapu-Lapu killed Magellan history but you can see along the streets the monuments, different ancestral houses and the various temple of found in the city. Lessons that I have learned during the tour is that travelling with your classmate is a test in some manner if whom you can and should trust and who really cares for you the most.  I came, I saw, I experienced the exquisiteness of the things that the Queen City of the South offers an experience that cannot be forgotten and will forever remain.

'Till next time..