Re: Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-14 Thread Christine Aguila
Geez, not good. Christine > On Apr 13, 2017, at 8:46 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: > > Pentax has enough history that someone will at least want the name. I > don't think Ricoh will give up Pentax just yet. They only paid $125 > million for the company. That was pocket change to them really. The > thet

Re: Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-13 Thread Zos Xavius
Pentax has enough history that someone will at least want the name. I don't think Ricoh will give up Pentax just yet. They only paid $125 million for the company. That was pocket change to them really. The theta sells like wildfire currently and they seem intent on investing in that further. There

Re: Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-12 Thread Christine Aguila
Wow! Sad if true. Hopefully, something can be worked out. Cheers, Christine > On Apr 11, 2017, at 8:49 PM, Brian Walters 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/Bus

Re: Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-12 Thread Larry Colen
P. J. Alling wrote: Sigma hasn't been able to build a general purpose camera to save their life. RIcoh has a history of just shuttering divisions that don't make money. They folded their own SLR production before. Let's hope they don't do that again. What would Sigma do if they bought the Ric

Re: Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-11 Thread P. J. Alling
Sigma hasn't been able to build a general purpose camera to save their life. RIcoh has a history of just shuttering divisions that don't make money. They folded their own SLR production before. Let's hope they don't do that again. What would Sigma do if they bought the Ricoh imaging divisi

Re: Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-11 Thread P. J. Alling
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 c

Re: Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-11 Thread Larry Colen
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. Yeah, I'm in the same boat. There is a lot to like about Nikon. If they had in body image stabilization, I'd probably be shooting Nikon

Re: Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-11 Thread Paul Stenquist
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 wrote: > > G'day all > > I came across this item a couple of hours ago. I don't know how > authoritat

Ricoh to cut back camera production?

2017-04-11 Thread Brian Walters
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 ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney