Herb wrote:
however, because of the necessity to keep the prestige of the Pentax brand name (which they feel is necessary for maintaining opto-component sales to other digital camera companies without the ability to design high quality lenses), they will do what is necessary to hold their camera market share and profits about constant in the imaging products division, knowing that their margins are declining in digital cameras and plunging in film cameras. REPLY: Completely in contradiction to their official statement late last year where they explicitely intended to increas their digital market share from 3 to 5% by 2005. Also, in contradiction to the information given to their distributors where they say they intend to release more volume digital products in order to increase market share. You also once published figures of 3 million lens sales last yar which also seems completely unrealistic and more fitting for Canon, as it constitutes almost the complete number of A lenses ever manufactured. P�l
