Nikon and Panasonic are also cutting back on their camera divisions.
Nikon is supposed to be eliminating it's lower end consumer oriented
DSLRs such as the 3xxx and 5xxx lines, Panasonic is not being quite so
specific about it's future plans, AFAIK, but they have announced that
there will be cutbacks.
Ricoh has been floundering, and I think the K-P, and the earlier K-S1,
and yes the K-01, even though that was a HOYA imitative, is a symptom of
that. I don't have a solution, but I can recognize the problem. I
think Pentax sells more top end DSLRs than than entry level, and an
inverted pyramid isn't going to produce new Pentax users.
The other issue is that the Digital Revolution in photography has
happened. DSLRs reached sufficiency with the previous generation.
Improvements have become incremental and that's not what moves a lot of
iron, and the business model of everyone except Leica is that to make a
profit you've got to move a lot of iron.
On 4/11/2017 10:01 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Not good long term. But I figure I'm fine with what I have for the foreseeable
future. If Ricoh folds their tent I'll buy a Nikon.
Paul via phone
On Apr 11, 2017, at 9:49 PM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
G'day all
I came across this item a couple of hours ago. I don't know how
authoritative it is but it doesn't sound good:
http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Ricoh-may-close-shutter-on-personal-camera-business
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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