On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:35 PM Mark C <[email protected]> wrote:
> I may be wrong but I think Hoya hung onto Pentax Mdical as a separate > company and sold the general photographic division to Ricoh. See > > https://www.pentaxmedical.com/pentax/en/92/1/PENTAX-Medical-Overview > > "PENTAX Medical is a division of HOYA Group delivering endo-imaging > solutions." > > Mark Hoya bought Pentax for the medical imaging division. The last thing they wanted was the camera part of the company. That was why the QC went to hell on the K5. All they were interested in was squeezing as much profit out of the photographic equipment as they could. Ricoh only paid something like 125 million for the camera division. > > > > On 6/26/2017 1:04 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: > > ... (at a dealer) is that Nikon wants Ricoh. > > I think they want the medical and office equipment divisions. > > Probably could care less about the cameras. > > Maybe PDML should buy the camera division. > > Let's all chip in. > > > > > > > -- > 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.
