There are more follow-up news coverage on yesterday's Pentax press conference.
The first one is from Nikkei News Agency:
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/sangyo/20030204AT1D0405504022003.html
It mentioned that Pentax is going to set up a factory in China for manufacturing digital cameras. Pentax expect a total digital camera sales value of 50 billion yen (US$400million) for 2003 and will put in 8 billion yen (US$70million)for digital camera R&D.
The second one from Japanese Industrial Journal is more interesting:
http://www.jij.co.jp/news/car/art-20030204184929-DBLDZYZWYL.nwc
It mentioned that Pentax is developing a D-SLR with high pixel count.
Regards,
Henry Chu
5/2/2003
Iren & Henry Chu wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Some new information from digitalcamera.jp regarding the press conference
> today by Pentax:
>
> 1. The ten new cameras are digital (not mentioned in the web sites I quoted
> earlier)
> 2. The manufacture base of Pentax in Philippine can produce 70000-80000
> digital cameras per month.
> 3. The image processing software of Optio S is solely Pentax in-house
> design.
> 4. All the Casio digital cameras after QV-10 use Pentax lens. The
> cooperative relationship between the two companies is very good and
> successful and will continue in the future.
> 5. Pentax is going to announce digital cameras of higher image quality and
> higher performance very soon.
> 6. Budget on digital camera development has doubled last year.
>
> Regards,
>
> Henry Chu
> 4/2/2003
>
> >From: "Iren & Henry Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Ten new cameras to be announced!!!!
> >Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:20:35 +0800
> >
> >Dear all,
> >
> >Just got some stunning news from Japan.
> >
> >Today, Pentax officially announced the Optio S in Japanese market. The
> >President of Pentax stated that Pentax is now ready to enter the
> >competition in digital cameras battle field, like "he is now standing in
> >the boxing ring and the bell is ringing".
> >
> >He also stated that by mid 2003, there will be more than 10 new light
> >weight and compact Pentax cameras entering into the market. They will
> >strengthen the advertising activities and hope to increase their market
> >shares from 2% to 5%. The current camera production rate of the company is
> >about 70,000 to 80,000 units per month.
> >
> >Here is the Japanese link:
> >
> >http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20030204-00000019-bcn-sci
> >
> >Am I dreaming? Pentax is waking up!
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Henry Chu
> >4/2/2003
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