>I certainly hope it works out better for Pentax than it's worked out for > Mercury.
Yeah, Mercury has been a Ford brand for only 60 - 70 years or so. Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hoya - Pentax Merger? >I certainly hope it works out better for Pentax than it's worked out for > Mercury. > > John Celio wrote: >>> Well, guys, say goodbye to Pentax. My experience is this never does the >>> smaller company any good. It winds up just be a name the bigger company >>> uses for awhile with 3rd party products. Seems the doom sayers were >>> right and the rest of us wrong. >>> >> >> 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. >> >> John >> >> -- >> http://www.neovenator.com >> http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. > --Albert Einstein > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
