IMO if Pentax goes badly, Hoya would keep it as a lens manufacturer for other brands. That's what I'd do.
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:05:50AM -0600, William Robb scripsit: >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graydon" >> Subject: Re: DA* 55/1.4 vs 50/1.2 >>> So I expect that a 31 replacement is going to be preferred by Pentax in >>> terms of "the best lens we can build". >> >> Now if we can only talk them into building a camera in the same terms. > > Well, it's really "best lens we can afford to build" or "best camera we > can afford to build"; I strongly suspect the K10D was a serious gamble > in that respect. > > There's also the problem that cameras are now consumer electronic > devices; total product lifetimes around 18 months. The engineering > cultural change to deal with that is a drastic thing to get through, and > not every organization that attempts this manages to do so. (Just the > increase in parts count can kill you.) > > If total worldwide sales of the K10D and K20D are, oh, 100,000, Pentax > can expect to sell about 15,000 KxDs; that, whatever the real numbers > are, may simply not be enough. > > One interpretation of their effort to expand their customer base > generally arises from this; they don't have one that's large enough for > the best camera they can afford to build to be any much better than the > K20D, and they want to change that. > > I am nearly certain I would prefer the Pentax take on that best camera > to the Samsung take on it, but I am also quite sure that Samsung already > knows how to do the consumer electronics product life cycle and that if > Pentax goes under no one else will ever make lenses like that again. > > So I really really *don't* want Pentax making something they can't sell > enough of. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
