On 20/09/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pentax now has a large contingency of the image processing engineers. They > were on the hiring binge of these engineers a few years ago (a bit more). > Some of the folks in Japan were surprised to see the hiring ads even in > commuting trains. I think they have been TRULY concentrating on beefing up > everything digital. Re hardware mfg, by the nature of the camera mfg, I > assume there have not been any significant changes but again, they are > concentrating on packaging more compact components etc.
That's good to hear and it's what I'd expect. Sourcing electronic components from OEM is one thing but someone competent has to design this gear and once it's all together some body in-house has to program it all to actually work as planned. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net