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From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:12:38 -0000
I agree with you that Samsung is likely to aim for the high volume end of
the market. But whether Pentax makes the gear for them, or whether they
pay Pentax a royalty, Pentax will end up richer, and that will enable them
to step up R&D at the higher end of the market. It might also provide the
impetus to re-release some of the glass that has recently disappeared.
Broadening the user base is valuable in itself. A user base of many
millions of customers is worth holding onto.
Incidentally, I was taking issue more with Tom's post than yours. I
thought yours was fair, even if it was less supportive of Pentax than I
would have been. There's plenty of room for different views. Herb's take
on things, however, was extreme, and I think Tom's is rather negative - as
he himself admits. I do sympathise with the frustration you both feel;
things might have been rather different if the Philips chip had proved to
be viable.
John
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:51:56 -0000, Rob Studdert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 22 Jan 2006 at 23:30, John Forbes wrote:
However, I happen to believe that the message put out by Pentax users
can,
does, and will, have a profound effect on the future success or
otherwise
of the brand, or rather, the mount, as there are now two brands using
the
K-mount for digital cameras.
I'm really not sure what you expect of the Samsung involvement for Pentax
users, they may assist in perpetuating the mount but may also be the
catalyst
that pushes Pentax into a new tier of SLR cameras priced between the
serious
stuff and P&S. IOW the partnership with Samsung doesn't guarantee great
new
lenses nor top end bodies from either party.
All it means practically is that there may be a greater sales volume
(assuming
Pentax can supply to demand). Samsung is a savvy business, they don't
have top
end tiered products they only have stuff that sells in big volumes. So
do you
think that they will make an exception for Pentax and do you think that
Pentax
will be able to wind up it's production capabilities to be able to
deliver the
volume to Samsung and a new line for Pentax buyers? How is this going to
work?
Where will the profits go? Will Samsung end up manufacturing Pentax
product?
Don't you think that users here saying publicly what they think needs
improving
and what would keep them buying Pentax is a good thing? I'm glad that
there are
a few of us here honest enough to really question what Pentax do, at
least then
newbies have a chance to make up their minds rather than being falsely
lead
into thinking everything is rosy in the Pentax camp.
BTW Samsung seems to have had very little experience in producing image
sensors
beyond 1600x1200 pixels, I'm not sure that I want to be one of their
guinea
pigs practically speaking.
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/SystemLSI/ImagingSolutions/index.h
tm
Rob Studdert
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