On 2/21/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ken, > > I didn't say the topic was stupid or that everyone should ignore it. > I said that *I* ignore it. I ignore it because I've heard the same > things a bazillion times over and over again. I'm tired of hearing > about it. That's *my* opinion. I hope I have your permission to > ignore what I want to ignore. > > Sony will do what makes them profit, just like Pentax or Nikon or > Leica or anyone else in BUSINESS *ought* to do. If you don't make a > profit, you don't stay in business. They have a long history of being > in the electronic imaging market. Since that's where photography is > now, I expect them to be around there for a long time, making > products. Whether they stay in the DSLR market is irrelevant to me at > present ... I use Pentax equipment right now. > > Will they be making the products that I want to buy, personally? I > don't know. I've owned several Sony cameras and, aside from the F828, > they all produced very good photographs. I currently still have the > R1 but my use of it has pretty much ceased since Pentax delivered the > 10Mpixel body. > Oh Godfrey, don't get too uptight about this :-). I ignore a lot of threads which do not interest me but I just do not come out and tell the world that I ignore them. That's all.
Re Sony, they are a respectable company and noone has any doubt about it. But since the overhaul of thier executive structures, it has been a known fact that they have been struggling and stumbling in consumer electronic market. It became a known patter recently that they search for what they perceive to be profitable market, explore them, but if they found they are not for them, they are too quick to fold up. It was not like that before. Look at Cleo (or whatever is called, a Palm PDA) from which they retreated. Their portable audio is overwhelmed by iPod, and much touted Play Station stuff is now seem to be in limbo. Theyb are still a king in the institutional market. They have been producing great imaging products. But they are operating like a fire drill and still seraching for the directions and goals in "consumer electronics" area. Those are the facts which is substantiated by CFO's uttering. Pana is similar to Sony except they are more ribut now and much larger than Sony in "consumer electronics". I said that Sony is still very good in P&S digital which is backed by sales results, but are apparently finding DSLR manuafacturing being a tough business. They were quite outspoken when they said that C/N have launched competing models and are "struggling". of course they are. C/N are sniping at Sony which is a newcomer to their traditional market and C/N do not wish to share any more pie which has been fixed and shared by their competitng "buddies" such as Pentax and Oly etc. Now, I am not an analyst and should stop here, but judging from what everybody can see, I just thought that it is too risky to buy into Sony DSLR. Remember I am talking only about DSLR. It is too bad that Minolta was one of the most innovative camera companies, and was not afraid of risking by producing innovative technologies. I wish they did not have a propriatary hot shoe.... :-). Take it easy please :-). Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
