Remember the Pentax MZ-D? Pentax was behind N and C but they also had far less money. If they had chosen to use a "safe" DX format chip in the MZ-D (instead of the ill-fated Phillips FF chip) they would have produced a more timely product. Would it have sold at $4-6K is another question. Probably why they are still gun shy about FF.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike wilson Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:14 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The Rise of Digital imaging and the Fall of the Old Camera industry ---- Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > I heard you, but just because Hasselblad tried and got tripped up > doesn't mean that they could have stopped the revolution. That's kind > of like saying "If Longenes didn't have their head up their ass, they > could have saved the mechanical watch industry." Eastman Kodak had > the resources and the knowledge of what was on the horizon, and they > were much better capitalized than Hassy. They lost a lot more in this > revolution than a simple camera maker. > Regards, Bob S. That's not ("stopped the revolution") what I'm saying. Hasselblad was a _leader_ in the revolution until the company owners/management, for reasons that seem at first glance to be incredibly selfish, pulled the plug on the research and development and spent the money on something else. Probably themselves. > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:23 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bob Sullivan wrote: > > > >> Companies have an institutional memory and like to do what they know > >> how to do well. A major technological innovation can mean major > >> dislocations. Suddenly that expensive Swiss timepiece is bested by a > >> $6 chip watch from Texas Instruments. Mechanical time pieces became > >> an anachronism. So too with film cameras... Regards, Bob S. > > > > The article says that the above scenario was not the case. Engineers were > > working on digital solutions (did I write that out loud?) in the early 90s. > > There was a takeover, the research was scrapped and the considerable > > financial resources disappeared. Amoral bandits. > > > >> > >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:43 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. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> 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. > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: > >> 270.12.46/2143 - Release Date: 05/30/09 05:53:00 > >> > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > 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. -- 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. -- 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.
