John wrote: > It's worth pointing out that the company as a whole is still making > profits, so the quote (in another thread) that > Pentax is in "dire straits" is somewhat exaggerated. > > A loss of 643 million yen for the quarter is about $6 million dollars, > against total company profits of $30 million expected for the year to > March 2005. This latter figure takes account of any losses incurred and > expected to be incurred in the imaging division. Furthermore, the ongoing > profit figure (after stripping out losses from discontinued activities) is > rather higher. > > I do think it is counter-productive for the list to keep harping on about > Pentax's woes. Anybody in the market for a new camera is going to be put > off Pentax when he reads some of the more lurid pronouncements on this > list, and that won't help any of us.
Very true. Olympus stated that nobody was making money on digital cameras. This was more than a year ago so things may have changed meanwhile but the point that this is not a high profit segment probably still hold true. P�l
