Hasn't anyone noticed that these rumors seem to be from the same source?
Mike Nosal wrote:
Imaging Resource has picked up on an item from Denis Klimovich's
Russian-language Penta Club website, from Pentar, the Russian Pentax
distributor:
"28/04/2004: Due to the rapid expansion of the worldwide digital
market, and the sharp decline in the film camera segment, Pentax
announces plans to reduce manufacture of compact and single-lens
reflex film cameras in the coming months. Pentax will continue
production of professional medium-format film cameras. Pentax will
also continue production of binoculars."
http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1086134375.html
This mirrors other rumors that Pentax is cutting the film-SLR linup to
just the MZ-60 and *ist.
Interestingly, they claim they'll still be producing med-format film
cameras. I think these too will be out of production by the end of 2004.
--Mike
