> > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/02/21 Wed PM 03:31:02 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: 85mm f1.8 SMCT on ebay : $400+ > > > 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. ;-)
I don't agree with your assesment of the new kids. They are classic box shifters of the old school. If imaging sales even flicker, they will be off on the next big thing faster than the top speed of a Z1-p shutter. I think we have lost a few more manufacturers than you list, too. Maybe not "big players" but providers of systems with their own charcteristics. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
