I agree with Bill. Not only is ricoh a better fit, Ricoh is a general tech
company with money to burn.
On photography: They also tend to concentrate on niche markets and come with
original solutions. This is very Pentax imo. And their photo business is very
complimentary with Pentax products.William Robb <[email protected]> a
écrit :>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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