May be... but that's the way the system is set up to work, n'est pas? The lowest common denominator is money and that's what the whole thing is based on.
Pentax accepted Sparx's investment money when shares in Pentax were sold to Sparx. Pentax is beholden to Sparx. Sparx may indeed not care one iota about whether Pentax continues to be a camera maker. The fact that you, I, and others may happen to enjoy using Pentax products, does not gurantee anything. They are a minor player in the field of DLSR's when it comes to market share and profit margin on each unit sold. Want to take any bets on whether a Hoya-owned Pentax thinks a 645D is an undertaking that will generate sufficient profit? None of you guys is stupid, you understand the basic principles of stock and fiscal feasance, but you seem to look with a blind eye regarding the situation Pentax is in, and particularly the potential future of their camera divsion. Tom C. >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Pentax Update >Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:28:07 -0400 > >Or we see an investment company trying to maximize it's short term >investments. > >Tom C wrote: > >> I expect Pentax is pretty close to being able to tell Sparx to take a > >> flying > >> f#ck at the moon anyway. > >> > >> William Robb > >> > >> > > > > Why? Sparx is the major shareholder and therefore owns more of Pentax >than > > any other single entity. > > > > What all this shows to me is that there is a marked disconnect between > > Pentax's popularity surge with the K10D/K100D, as good as that may be, >and > > their profitability and long term viability in a competitive >marketplace. > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > > > > >-- >Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf >thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. > > >-- >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
