On 01/07/2011 12:45 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Ricoh left the SLR business years ago. I really hate to say this but,
this looks too much Konica buying up Minolta, and we all know how that
turned out. Minolta users were lucky that Sony was looking to enter the
DSLR market.
If Hoya wasn't big enough to keep Pentax a going concern, how the hell
is Ricoh going to do it?
Hoya originally only wanted the medical imaging division of Pentax, but
took the whole company in an all or nothing deal, IIRC. They have gone
on to turn the camera division into a profitable entity, which it
certainly wasn't prior to the buy out.
Personally, I think Ricoh is a better fit from a photographers POV than
Hoya for a camera making company.
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