Hopefully you were joking and saying the below with tongue in cheek.
As I read it, yes it may be more favorable to DSLR purchasers, except many
of us have been saying this for the last several years and especially since
the *ist D finally arrived.
I also remember reading here how some said it made sense for Pentax to focus
on the P&S market since that's where all the money was. Some say it now
makes sense for Pentax to keep competing by churning out cheaper versions of
the *ist D with reduced functionality.
I personally don't know. I do know for myself, having two Pentax P&S in the
family is plenty, and that I'm not in the least interested in any DSLR
that's a step down from the D. So Pentax can either attract new first time
customers with low prices, or retain an existing user base by releasing
'improved' higher end models. Maybe they should have been doing some of
both.
When an arguably smaller player in the field sees their profits decline by
almost half, when they have been persuing a business plan that was
*designed* to *make* money, when they are apparently just now reaching a
conclusion that many of us had reached earlier, it makes us little guys
wonder about the wisom of future "investments" in the system and the long or
even short term viability of the brand. It also can effect availability of
third party products. For instance, do I purchase a $1000 50-500 Sigma zoom
in Pentax mount or do I choose the opportunity to try a differnet brand?
I don't think Herb (or myself) is saying the sky is falling. We're simpy
looking up and wondering how long it can keep hanging up there.
Tom C.
From: Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Pentax Profits Fall 42%
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:11 -0400
And what do lost of profits from D-P&S sales which is happening to everyone
have to do with DSLR's that folks here on the list are interested in. In
fact according to the link you posted the result will be rather favorable
to the enthusists here as they say they will be developing and selling more
DSLR versions.
You ought to change your list name to "Chicken Little", but I guess we do
need a resident anti-Pentax troll like you just in case something real
happens somewhere sometime.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
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Herb Chong wrote:
i was going to wait until tonight, but DPreview already broke the story.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05071903pentax_profitsfall.asp. if you
read the original, you will see that although Pentax sold 10% more digital
cameras, it lost more money.
with Panasonic paired up with Olympus and now Sony with Konica-Minolta,
there's no major Japanese electronics company left to partner with.
Herb...
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