last quarter, Pentax shipped 20K DSLR bodies. presumably most of them were
sold since Pentax ships direct from the factory to most of their large
retailers and not through their local distributors as they used to. they
started doing this in 2003 with FedEx as their main carrier.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Pentax Profits Fall 42%
They will always be in a costly developing schedule of coming DSLR's. It's
not going to get any easier. I don't think the camera bodies will ever
make them any money. They're too costly to develop and manufacture, they
go out of date too quickly and they can't move enough units to recover
their costs.
