On Feb 21, 2007, at 7:20 AM, mike wilson wrote: > That's one way of looking at it but companies have different > expectations from their businesses, too. Those people have to keep > buying SLRs for the market to remain bouyant. Think how many > primary manufacturers (by which I mean whose main industry was > photography, not a box shifter jumping on the new big thing) have > gone out of business in the last five years. Choice is being > dramatically eroded. If the market swings away from SLR use, we > will for sure find prices rising substantially - maybe production > ceasing altogether.
We've lost Konica, Minolta and gained Sony, Panasonic, Samsung. Zeiss, Leica, Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Olympus, Hasselblad, Sinar, are all still around. The loss of some and the gain of others, particularly large companies with a lot of financial clout and a history in imaging technologies (both Sony and Panasonic are well respected in this area, market leaders, even if they weren't still camera vendors of the old school) does not seem to me to be a "dramatic erosion of choice". But I'm not a Luddite. ;-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
