On 8/20/09, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote:
- Original Message - From: Scott Loveless
Subject: Re: Hoya to seek digital camera alliance
Honey, welcome to the 60s.
Just spare me single use digital cameras with Pentax lenses
please
Maybe I was being a bit too obscure
I dunno why you all read it that way.
If ther's anything to be read between the lines is that Hoya isn't
into selling, they are actually into buying, which is excellent news.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Perry Pellechiasnagglepus...@gmail.com wrote:
Article on Reuters:
I don't think Hoya is into selling. However Big Conglomerates are into
shutting down little divisions. The little divisions don't even have to
be losing money. They just have to be making not enough money. With
proper planning Kodak's film division could become a nice profitable
niche
P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe Japanese companies are different, then
again you can ask Kyocera how their Contax/Yashica division is doing
lately or Konica/Minolta how they're doing making those really super
Alpha 900 cameras.
Tamron/Bronica and so on...
Ralf
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Subject: Re: Hoya to seek digital camera alliance
From: Graydon o...@uniserve.com
Date: Wed, August 19, 2009 7:12 pm
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:27:49PM -0400, Perry Pellechia scripsit:
I was planning on buying a K7
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Subject: Re: Hoya to seek digital camera alliance
From: Graydon o...@uniserve.com
Date: Wed, August 19, 2009 7:12 pm
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:27:49PM -0400, Perry
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Original Message
Subject: Re: Hoya to seek digital camera alliance
From: Graydon o...@uniserve.com
Date: Wed, August 19, 2009 7:12 pm
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Perry Pellechiasnagglepus...@gmail.com wrote:
Article on Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUST15448620090818
Our digital camera business is not exactly a big operation. There are
naturally questions among us whether it is big
In the current economic climate I don't expect any manufacture is doing
particularly well. Hoya expects short term profitability in 2010, so
what books are they juggling so that long term prospects aren't equally
bright?
Perry Pellechia wrote:
Article on Reuters:
I think we're all going to have to buckle up and buy a K-7 and a DA*
lens. For the good of the company, you see?
Our spouses will surely agree with our altruistic motives.
The things we do for our Art...
--M.
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I was planning on buying a K7, but when a company says they are
pessimistic that they can survive why should we believe they can?
Talk about an alliance does not really help when it only sounds like
the are hoping to be rescued by a someone unknown company that
probably does not exist.
On Wed,
Or, maybe, we should wait until they fall, and buy all that equipment
half-price at the liquidation sale?
;-)
Igor
Wed Aug 19 14:12:27 CDT 2009
Miserere wrote:
I think we're all going to have to buckle up and buy a K-7 and a DA*
lens. For the good of the company, you see?
Our spouses will
I was planning on buying a K7, but when a company says they are
pessimistic that they can survive why should we believe they can?
Talk about an alliance does not really help when it only sounds like
the are hoping to be rescued by a someone unknown company that
probably does not exist.
The things we do for our Art...
Art who ?
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
- Original Message -
From: Miserere miser...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Hoya to seek digital camera alliance
I think we're all going to have to buckle up and buy a K-7 and a DA*
lens. For the good
I might take that chance but I think anyone is looking for a little
more support than just through the warranty period. Hoya wants Pentax
profitable by March 2010. I do not see the world wide economy
improving that much in 6 months to think that this is a realistic
goal.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at
- Original Message -
From: Perry Pellechia
Subject: Hoya to seek digital camera alliance
Article on Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUST15448620090818
Our digital camera business is not exactly a big operation. There are
naturally questions among
2009/8/19 William Robb war...@gmail.com:
Just off the top of my head, Fuji, Casio, possibly Panasonic. It's pretty
unlikely that as a brand, Pentax is just going to dissapear at the end of
fiscal year 2010.
Kenko (Tokina), Cosina, Mamiya...
maybe even... (gasp!) Sigma... :-)
Oh, man. It's
No surprise here. Isn't this what we all (should have) expected when Hoya
bought Pentax to get the non-camera parts of the company (e.g., endoscope)?
Hoya is an optics company, not a camera company. The surprise is that with
the world-wide depr (oops) recession, they waited this long.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:27:49PM -0400, Perry Pellechia scripsit:
I was planning on buying a K7, but when a company says they are
pessimistic that they can survive why should we believe they can?
That's not even *close* to what he said.
The guy is *Japanese*.
Japanese software never, ever,
On 8/19/09, Larry Levy larryl...@sprintmail.com wrote:
I guess, this leaves the two former film giants - Fuji and Kodak and
perhaps independent lens manufacturers like Sigma and Tamron. How likely is
any of these to succeed?
My vote goes to Kodak. And we'll hear, very soon I'm sure, about
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Scott Lovelesssdlovel...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/19/09, Larry Levy larryl...@sprintmail.com wrote:
I guess, this leaves the two former film giants - Fuji and Kodak and
perhaps independent lens manufacturers like Sigma and Tamron. How likely is
any of these to
- Original Message -
From: Scott Loveless
Subject: Re: Hoya to seek digital camera alliance
On 8/19/09, Larry Levy larryl...@sprintmail.com wrote:
I guess, this leaves the two former film giants - Fuji and Kodak and
perhaps independent lens manufacturers like Sigma and Tamron
William Robbwar...@gmail.com wrote:
Just off the top of my head, Fuji, Casio, possibly Panasonic. It's pretty
unlikely that as a brand, Pentax is just going to dissapear at the end of
fiscal year 2010.
I doubt it would be Panasonic. They have their own resources and a line
of point-and-shoot
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