There are an awful lot of possibles and maybes in that article. There's
no way of knowing whether Ricoh is actually getting out of the camera
business, and that article is written in such a way that if they do, the
author can claim to be prescient, and if they don't he can just simply
forget it was ever written.
Demand for mid level and high end DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras has
fallen in the last few years cell phones are now good enough general
picture takers that entry level DSLRs and Mirrorless are feeling the
pinch. Even Nikon is feeling the squeeze.
Sony want's to own the camera market one way or another and is willing
to burn Yen in heaping piles to get it, and Canon can continue on as
they are simply from inertia, for a very long time, everybody else is
going to have to retrench or go under.
On 4/12/2017 12:36 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
Bipin Gupta wrote:
This came in today to my Inbox:
http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Ricoh-may-close-shutter-on-personal-camera-business
The end of Pentax - Ricoh coming near??
Well that could really and truly suck.
Hope this time an Indian Company buys them out, or I see a merger with
some existing
Camera Manufacturer.
God Bless us Pentaxians, as we have been tossed enough by the waves.
Regards.
Bipin
from the IT / Computer Capital of the World.
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