Shoot the messenger? Sounds like good news to me: "A new focus on highly profitable digital SLRs." The abandonment of the MF development had become pretty much an obvious direction as time went on and as the K digitals proved quite successful. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Digital Image Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From "The Nikkei Business DailyJun/01/2007 10:06 GMT" > > "Hoya's Suzuki previously implied that a sell-off of the camera > business could be imminent, but he indicated otherwise at the Thursday > press conference. "We can afford the camera operation if we focus on > particular fields," he said." > > "Within Pentax, a project to bolster the camera operation is quietly > under way with a new focus on highly profitable digital SLRs. To > concentrate its limited resources on most promising items, it will > freeze for the time being development of medium format digital > cameras, which tend to be costly. Meanwhile, it will rebuild its > compact digital camera operation by concentrating on > higher-performance models, among other measures." > > "Hoya will begin takeover proceedings in early June, at which time the > real battle for survival will begin for Pentax's camera operations." > > -- > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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