I can easily see a Samsung body, possibly designed by Pentax, and a Nikon
mount, with Pentax supplying the lenses with Nikon mounts...
I better shut up. I don't want to give them any ideas... ;)
I personally don't see Samsung profiting highly by associating themselves,
in name, with a company that is viewed as a lesser player by the industry
and consumers at large.
Is there, in fact, room in the marketplace for another DLSR maker?
Tom C.
From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: HOT NEWS: Pentax +Samsund DSLRs
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:11:53 -0600
This runs parallel to my statement earlier regarding choice of lens mounts,
and is what I was thinking in the back of my mind. If a company wanted to
sell the most DSLR's, picking Pentax as the company and the K-mount as the
mount, is not the approach to take.
Maybe Samsung simply wants to enter the DSLR market, and for all practical
purposes, absorb, assimilate Pentax Imaging.
Tom C.
From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: HOT NEWS: Pentax +Samsund DSLRs
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:56:38 +1000
On 12 Oct 2005 at 11:56, Mark Roberts wrote:
> I fully expect Samsung to be providing semiconductor expertise and
> manufacturing/marketing capacity. The main reason they would have for
> partnering with Pentax would *be* K-mount system.
I don't understand the partnering myself.
Samsung are interested in one thing VOLUME.
They really wouldn't care a hoot about cameras or mounts, but if they expect
to
sell DSLRs in volumes like they do all their other product/component lines
by
partnering with Pentax then they are deluded.
Rob Studdert
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