Well, we have hit bottom and are on the upswing of the current economic cycle. Funny thing is marketeers never seem to be able to figure out how economic cycles affect sales.
Over the decades a lot of companies have gone belly up when all they had to do was hang in there another year. Back in the days when Japanese companies tooled up, made a production run, and stocked them in the warehouse to sell over 5 or more years things tended to continue to be available when the cycle swung up again, in these days of just in time inventory, they have destroyed the tooling and gone out of business by the time things get better. I continue to be bemused that people do not understand economic cycles even after they have lived through a bunch of them. The down swings are always precived as something unique. Maybe, that is because marketing executives tend to be rather young. I mean if the last recession happened when you were a kid, you probably barely noticed it. Politicians, of course, are just plain stupid, they think everything can be fixed with a smile and a lie. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 2:03 PM Subject: Re: High-end film bodies (WAS: Re: *ist D was not production type :-() > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the sales of high end film slr's remaining pretty steady, despite the incursion of digital? > > I'll have to look that one up, and get back to y'all (no time right now), but IIRC, percentage of digital in overall camera sales is increasing very steadily, and the actual numbers of film > cameras may be dropping, but higher-end film cams are holding their own - so far... > > cheers, > frank > > P�l Jensen wrote: > > > Steve wrote: > > > > Film cameras are more stable, and I really do > > think e are going to see very few really new nigh end film SLR's. > > There's just not money in them anymore, and the "pro show" cameras are > > now digital, so its' the 1Ds and not the F5 that has the most "drool" > > value. > > > > REPLY: > > > > But they need a platform for DSLR. Also high-end ones. Providing there will be a market for high-end film cameras at all, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Nikon F6 with a digital sibling. > > > > P�l > > -- > "I don't believe in God, but I do believe in pi" - Henri Cartier-Bresson > >
