Re: OT: Digital camera sales in the USA

[Herb Chong]

Sanyo makes the most digital P&S cameras in the world. it lost heavily last 
quarter and is expected to announce even worse losses this quarter, which 
ends in a few days. the company is expecting to do a major reorganization to 
divest parts of the company that they can't ever make money on. they 
probably are going to lay off lots of people in the Chinese factories and 
concentrate all production in their main Japanese one. few people believe 
this is enough to make the company turn a profit soon.

Herb....
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Subject: Re: OT: Digital camera sales in the USA


Well in the P&S world, most of them are made by third party manufactures. 
Many of them only have a slightly different plastic outside body with a 
different name on it. Though some manufactures have their own lens put on 
also, others just have their name put on the standard lens. AFAIK Pentax 
does not make any of their P&S camera, though I have heard that they do 
supply the SMC lens elements.

If the same camera with an unknown name on it sells for $100 and with a 
namebrand on it for $200, I do not believe that no one is making money 
selling it. The only companies actually losing money are ones like Kodak 
that are writing the lost off against one of their cash cows (military 
sales of chemicals maybe) for tax purposes.