Doesn't Pentax lose money every year lately? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Woerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 10:17 AM Subject: Re: Re[2]: No Pentax D-SLR on Photokina?
> > OK guys and gals, go shoot some Kodachrome, get it developed, and look at it > on the light table. You will all feel better as you wait to see what Pentax > has up it's sleeve. > > Robert > > Remember, Canon and Nikon lose money on their digital cameras(how the heck > do they stay in business anyway??). > > > > > > My biggest problem is not that I need a DSLR but > > > that Pentax will suffer > > > so much financially that it might have to go the > > > Olympus rote and just > > > stop making SLR's altogether, and instead make their > > > money on P&S cameras. > > > >more likely, they would suffer financially if they *did* produce a dslr. > >besides, many have pointed out (and i also agree with that) that it may > >very > >well be that dslr is not The Way, so why waste tons of r&d resources now on > >a > >potentially loosing technology? a new flagship slr or a bunch of top notch > >lenses would more likely to win them new customers as well as good > >publicity. > >speaking for myself, i would definitely pass a $5K whizz bang gadget that > >takes > >worse pictures than any $100 p&s, but would seriously consider $1K slr that > >had > >USM, IS etc. and i suspect, i am not the only one. > > > > > By the way, my spell checker keeps trying to > > > replace "Photokina" with "Fettuccini". > > > >makes sense to me :) > > > >best, > >Mishka > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > >
