Herb wrote:
> 66K DSLRs is 2/3 of what Kodak sold last year and Kodak is pulling the plug > on their DSLRs. Kodak's DSLRs were a lot more expensive than any Pentax one > and they still outsold Pentax. since the Pentax DSLRs are low end models, > Pentax isn't making much money on them. Sure. The Pentax MD-S (shelved) costed $20 million to develop. Assuming this is a typical for a DSLR we can assume that only the best selling Nikon and Canon DSLR's makes any money for their makers. Pentax is caught in a hard place as their volume segment, the advanced zoom compact, are under intense competition and the fact that they virtually abandoned their old niche the slr. P�l
