On 22/12/06, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the Samsung collaboration was to insulate Pentax from possible > complications from Sony's acquisition of Konica-Minolta's DSLR line. Not > a good thing to be dependent on a competitor as the sole source for your > imaging chips. > > My understanding was that Samsung was supposed to be working on Pentax's > next generation imaging chips and Pentax was to contribute camera > experience & optical know-how.
I doubt it very much, Samsung has very little expertise in the area of high quality CCD imaging and it's not the kind of technological knowhow and manufacture that you can simply acquire over a couple of years. In any case it's apparent that Pentax and Samsung used Sony sensors and if rumors are true the 645D is based around the Kodak line of sensors so they were hardly beholden to one manufacturer. In any case whether this new deal is a merger or takeover of of Hoyas primary business associates is Sony so I'd be surprised if the Samsung association didn't just frizzle out over the next few years. Either that or Samsung will buy Hotax. -- 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
