IIRC Pentax out sold (units) all other SLR makers in the late 60's early 70's. Then the plastic cameras came out and Pentax was late getting into that (cheap camera) market.
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:01 PM Subject: Re: *ist D figures > Lawrence wrote: > > "Pentax is aiming for 20% market share of DSLR by > 2005." > > Wow, that seems high. > > HOWEVER, what is the current market share of Pentax > film SLR's? What is the highest it's been? > > Peter > > > > --- Lawrence Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Cotty wrote: > > > About this chart: > > > > > > <http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0808/pentax25.jpg> > > > What is this? The number of PDMLers whi are > > waiting for a Pentax DSLR? > > > > I wish :-) > > It's the projected world wide sale of digital SLR. > > The units are in "10,000". So 100 means 1 million, > > 200 means 2 million. > > > > So they are predicting 1.8 million DSLR worldwide > > sales in 2005 and 2.5 > > million by 2006. Pentax is aiming for 20% market > > share of DSLR by 2005. > > > > > > -- > > --Lawrence Kwan--SMS Info Service/Ringtone > > Convertor--PGP:finger/www-- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vex.net/~lawrence/ > > -Key ID:0x6D23F3C4-- > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.509 / Virus Database: 306 - Release Date: 8/12/03
