On 22/12/06, John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yet here you are, becoming a "doom sayer." I seriously doubt Pentax is > going away. It'll just be part of a larger company now, like Mercury is a > part of Ford. Pentax will continue to make cameras as they always have, > only now they have help from their new in-house partners, all of whom deal > with camera-related equipment already. > > Hoya owns and maintains a lot of brands, and there's no reason to think > they'd let a venerable brand like Pentax wither away just for kicks & grins.
We'll see, none of us know what will happen and even if they prosper using your car analogy will we end up having Jags that are essentially now just another Ford with a Jag badge? -- 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
