The announcement reads, to me, like Pentax will be providing Samsung
with camera engineering assistance. Maybe Samsung will be providing
Pentax with electronic engineering assistance. It does not sound like a
merger, or even joint marketing. However, time will tell.
graywolf
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Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
fra: Sylwester Pietrzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cotty wrote on 12.10.05 9:54:
<http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05101201samsung_pentaxdslrs.asp>
'Samsung announces agreement with Pentax to co-operate and jointly
develop new digital camera products. This will broaden the product
range
to offer consumers greater choice'.
Great news! Now the future of DSLRs with K-mount is much brighter,
althought
not every of these products would carry Pentax logo! Samsung is now
powerful
company - both economic and marketing wise!
The Pentax trademark is worth a lot more than Samsung in this market
so my bet is that they keep using it both on the cameras and on the
lenses.
The announcement reads like Pentax will be second fiddle.
Kostas
