On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Keith Whaley wrote: > >> Derby Chang wrote: >> >>> >>> A really fascinating essay on LL today. >>> >>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/rise-fall.shtml >>> >>> >> >> Well worth a read by anyone seriously interested in understanding more >> about the turning point between film and digital use. >> >> I thought I had a reasonable understanding of it, until I read this >> article! >> Well written and (until something better comes along) pretty much a short >> but seminal revelation on how it all came about. >> >> Thanks, Derby... >> >> keith whaley > > I saw it as more a description of the gross mismanagement, followed by the > financial rape and eventual (at least partial/temporary) salvation of a > world class camera company. It has less to do with the change from film to > sensor than it has to do with asset stripping and feckless, ignorant, > self-centred little toads. >
That combined with the essential Leica mistake. Having a primary product essentially identical to 30 year old production so there was little reason for long-time shooters to upgrade(V series) and introducing a new product which offered nothing beyond a nameplate over the Japanese brand's inexpensive and well-regarded products (the H-series). The H-series current dominance of the 645 market owes far more to Kyocera(Contax) and Tamron(Bronica) not wanting to be involved with the market and the basic unsuitability of the Pentax 645 design to digital backs more than any inherent advantage to the H-Series body. If Kyocera in particular had stuck it out the Contax 645 would almost assuredly be the dominant 645 series body today. -- 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.
