On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> The info you were getting sounds a lot more like 'I heard it from a >> salesguy' than an 'industry source', considering that it's about as >> accurate as most 'Pentax/Leica is dead' type rumours. > > My sources are the owners of a commercial photographic equipment supplier > who carries high-end gear for corporate and industrial photographers in this > locale and the owner of the leading professional camera retailers in the > area here. Both of these people know the ins and outs of the equipment > industry far better than I want to and keep track of what's going on by > attending all the international gatherings. > > That said, the comments were made in casual conversation, not as part of > some investigative exposition, and perhaps I misunderstood what they were > saying or they were speaking quickly. I'm happy to be incorrect. > > In any event, I don't care enough to go looking it up, so if you simply want > to say, "I'm right and you're wrong" and strut about on the good feelings > that gives you for a week or so, go ahead. > > I presume you're planning to invest in Hasselblad equipment now, which is > why you'd be so intimately informed as to the business situation of the > company. Good on you! > > Godfrey >
I did look it up, as I'd gotten smacked down a while back after making the one of the same assumptions about the H-Series you did (that the 'Fujiblad' was Fuji-built). As to the situation with the company's ownership, well I simply checked their webpage. It's all there in the About Hasselblad section. And thanks for confirming the 'I heard it from a salesguy' provenance of your info. Retailers, unless you're talking about B&H or Robert White sized ones, are not 'Industry Sources', even if well-connected. I've heard far sillier things from the owners of similar 'Leading Professional' retailers here in Toronto. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
