> > From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/12/26 Tue AM 11:26:07 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: RE: Hoya - Pentax Merger - Sad News > > Mark wrote: > >The K10D may just be the swan-song of Pentax management - one last flash > >before they are gone. > > Then I better get one while they're still available :-) > That will keep me going (with my current excellent glass collection) for > another 3-4 years. > No seriously: > > Why would teh joined forces with HOYA mean stopping the camera production? > > Hoya is - like Pentax - an important player in the glass business. Joining > management forces just means strengthining their role in the market place - > as glass manufactureres and imaging developeres. > > I also guess that the camera industry has a role promoting all other glass > products (like endoscopes and other medical equipment, spectacles, > car-windows, CD/DVD readers etc.). I also believe the camera section might > be profitable - or at least profitable enough to develop further.
Not much glass in an endoscope - I hope. "I,m sorry, I can't quite make the problem out. Time for some fast glass. Nurse! The 85 1.4, please. And some smelling salts for the patient." > > > This is why (from the Hoya webside): Read this > http://www.hoya.co.jp/data/current/newsobj-368-pdf.pdf > > > Regards > > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
