>I find Bruce's comment bothersome. (Sorry Bruce.) Pentax would never >abandon the SLR format completely, but I'm not so sure about Ricoh. I >hope they would at least run both for a while before completely >converting to mirrorless.
The assumption seems absurd, even for Ricoh. What seems more a problem is the timing -- and it seems very "Japanese". It's that type of conservative business that does not act until all is ready instead of taking a marketplace initiative. These are companies, as C S Lewis might describe them, "without chests". They lack the necessary passion for being real leaders instead of mere innovators. Here's my marketplace leadership idea restated from 3 years ago: If only someone would one-up eye.fi and build it into the camera with lower power consumption. *Make the camera a real computing device* and not just a PC peripheral. That's my plan. Why won't they listen to me? I'll even head up the project, both engineering and marketing. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
