You may be right but in many ways it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy,
"Hey I really like Pentax but they lost money last year, I guess I'll
buy Canon." Eventually Pentax will give up and you'll be vindicated.
Tom C wrote:
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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