Is Nikon in financial trouble? Its sales seem healthy.
Paul via phone > On Feb 15, 2017, at 9:22 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think John's referring to the financials, and the answer is unclear. Ricoh > has to deal with the same environment as Nikon, but Pentax users seem to be a > bit more -rabid- loyal. Additionally less is expected of Pentax, as well. > > NIkon produces exceedingly good sometimes great cameras with occasional major > flaws. > > Ricoh produces a Pentax camera that has nearly as good or better imaging, > than the equivalent Nikon, and lags almost all other features by a > generation, or in the case of video evn more, but that's all fine. > > We didn't expect the best AF system or fastest frame rate, or even in the > ballpark, video capability, so it's all good. > > Ricoh can make money selling a Pentax that's 85-90% of an equivalent Nikon, > for 2/3rds of the price, so they'll sell enough of them to keep going. > >> On 2/15/2017 6:31 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> I would think zero and none. Pentax users haven't reported the same kind of >> shutter problems that plague Nikon. >> >> Paul via phone >> >>> On Feb 15, 2017, at 6:17 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> How likely is it that Nikon's troubles will adversely affect Ricoh >>> and/or Pentax? >>> >>> -- >>> Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >>> Religion - Answers we must never question. >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
