Bruce wrote:
> Cite a reference, with more validity than "everybody knows" or "told to me by a >local Pentax rep", that has unit sales of SLRs. > Who's talking about SLR's? I was responding to the statement that Pentax was a small camera manufacturer. As far as I know, SLR is an insubstantial part of any camera manufacturers overturn. I'm refer to the camera/photo equipment (not office machines) overturn numbers published a few years back. BTW Pentax has grown substantially the last few years. 20 years ago, Pentax was the worlds largest slr manufacturer but a "small" company. Now they are among the largest japanese manufacturers and are still growing. In the mid 80's they changed from an SLR-only manufacturer to the worlds absolute market leader in the expensive and profitable 35mm P&S market. They made more P&S cameras that costed the same as entry level slr's than perhaps the whole hirtory of slr production combined. Pentax hasn't slowed down slr releaes the last 15 years due to the lack of resources; they have spent their resources elsewhere. Judging Pentax size from the number of slr's they sell is pretty pointless. P�l
