Re: New Announcement?

2006-04-11 Thread Martin Trautmann 
On 2006-04-05 19:32, Martin Trautmann wrote:
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060405/tc_nm/japan_pentax_dc_1
 
 - goal to ship 3.0 million digital cameras in 2006/07
 - goal to ship 240 000 DSLRs in 2006/2007
 
 - estimated 120 000 DSLR units in 2005/2006
 (what's the number of C, N, KM, O?)

Unfortunately no one named those numbers.

I guess it's

Nikon-SLR: 140 000 (estim. 2006), 240 000 (2005), 310 000 (estim. 2005), 680 
000 (2004)
Nikon-Digital: 7 800 000 (estim. 2006), 6 610 000 (2005), 5 400 000 (2004)
Nikon-DSLR: 1 500 000 (estim. 2006), 1 000 000 (estim. 2005), 300 000 (2004)


Canon-Digital: 19 200 000 (estim. 2006), 16 900 000 (2005)
Canon-DSLR: 59 % (2006), 2 200 000 (estim. 2006), 1 900 000 (2005)


DSLR total: 7 900 000 (estim. 2009 by IDC), 2 500 000 (2004)

New Announcement?

2006-04-05 Thread Doug Franklin 

Pentax in talks on camera production with Samsung
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060405/tc_nm/japan_pentax_dc_1

Is this really news, an expansion of the agreement we knew about, or is 
it simply a restatement of that existing agreement?  The dateline is Wed 
5 Apr 2006 @ 02:13 ET.



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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)

Re: New Announcement?

2006-04-05 Thread Martin Trautmann 
On 2006-04-05 08:20, Doug Franklin wrote:
 Pentax in talks on camera production with Samsung
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060405/tc_nm/japan_pentax_dc_1
 
 Is this really news, an expansion of the agreement we knew about, or is 
 it simply a restatement of that existing agreement?  The dateline is Wed 
 5 Apr 2006 @ 02:13 ET.

I feel it's more facts than before:

- still no win, first profit expected 2006/2007

- goal to ship 3.0 million digital cameras in 2006/07
- goal to ship 240 000 DSLRs in 2006/2007

- estimated 120 000 DSLR units in 2005/2006
(what's the number of C, N, KM, O?)

- common production of bodies under discussion,
  while at the moment it's just development.



I did not understand the expected sales numbers of $1.4 billion - I guess
it's for the whole company. Otherwise each digital camera would be sold
for an average of $467. On the other hand, estimating about $100/camera,
digital imaging would be a quarter of the company's business? 

- Martin