Good for Pentax! Eliminate the horrible little P&Ss

Near identical, rotten little silver boxes should be left to the
marketing companies like what's left of Vivitar and GE to produce.
Camera phones will replace the P&S at some point as well. If this
story is true, Pentax is doing the right thing. The evolution of this
will be mirrorless DSLRs.

from amateurphotography magazine:

Pentax to 'phase out' digital compact camera production


Tuesday 12th February 2008
Chris Cheesman
Optio A40

Pentax plans to phase out digital compact camera production and
concentrate on DSLRs, according to a report in a leading Japanese
trade journal, which has not been denied by Pentax Europe.

Pentax, which is one of the most famous brands in photography, is due
to merge with Hoya Corporation on 31 March.

Hoya's CEO Hiroshi Suzuki is reported to have told Japanese trade
magazine Pen News Weekly that Pentax will concentrate on DSLRs and
'gradually phase down development and production of compact digicams
in future'.

At the time of writing we were waiting for an official comment from
Pentax.

It is thought that, in the short term at least, Pentax will use a
third party to manufacture its compact cameras.

The Pen article adds that Hoya 'will focus its development resources
on DSLRs and will gradually phase down marketing operations for
compact digicams under the Pentax brand and specialise in OEM
businesses in order to improve the profit profile of its digicam
business operations'.

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:20:02 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote in
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Near identical, rotten little silver boxes should be left to the
marketing companies like what's left of Vivitar and GE to produce.
Camera phones will replace the P&S at some point as well. If this
story is true, Pentax is doing the right thing. The evolution of this
will be mirrorless DSLRs.

from amateurphotography magazine:

Pentax to 'phase out' digital compact camera production

All this means is that Pentax got its butt kicked in compact cameras.
Being borged by Hoya isn't a good thing. How sad.

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Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)

What is Pentax anyway?
They are basically a name sold to Samsung and who knows what Hoya is getting
out of the deal?
The very small Pentax lens lineup is actually made by what Japanese
manufacturer: hint--starts with a "T" and not a "P".
The current issue of Shutterbug is pimping a non/pre-preproduction Pentax
dSLR with a sensor made by who?
For the near term the only old line Japanese SLR makers still in the race
are Nikon and Canon.
For the rest of the market the real question is how long will Olympus, Sony,
Panasonic, Pentax, et al hang in there?
In any event the market for P&Ses dwarfs the dSLR market. However price
beats quality in most of this market segment.

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:45:44 GMT, "flambe" wrote in
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What is Pentax anyway?
They are basically a name sold to Samsung and who knows what Hoya is getting
out of the deal?
The very small Pentax lens lineup is actually made by what Japanese
manufacturer: hint--starts with a "T" and not a "P".
The current issue of Shutterbug is pimping a non/pre-preproduction Pentax
dSLR with a sensor made by who?
For the near term the only old line Japanese SLR makers still in the race
are Nikon and Canon.
For the rest of the market the real question is how long will Olympus, Sony,
Panasonic, Pentax, et al hang in there?
...

Olympus, Sony and Panasonic are all doing pretty well.
BTW, you left out Kodak.

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Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:20:02 -0800, RichA wrote:

Near identical, rotten little silver boxes should be left to the
marketing companies like what's left of Vivitar and GE to produce.
Camera phones will replace the P&S at some point as well. If this story
is true, Pentax is doing the right thing. The evolution of this will be
mirrorless DSLRs.

Already have them - they're called EVF.

"flambe" wrote in message
t...
What is Pentax anyway?
They are basically a name sold to Samsung and who knows what Hoya is
getting out of the deal?
The very small Pentax lens lineup is actually made by what Japanese
manufacturer: hint--starts with a "T" and not a "P".
The current issue of Shutterbug is pimping a non/pre-preproduction Pentax
dSLR with a sensor made by who?
For the near term the only old line Japanese SLR makers still in the race
are Nikon and Canon.
For the rest of the market the real question is how long will Olympus,
Sony, Panasonic, Pentax, et al hang in there?
In any event the market for P&Ses dwarfs the dSLR market. However price
beats quality in most of this market segment.

Olympus, Sony, and Panasonic are doing more than "just hanging in there."
Sony is getting very agressive in the SLR market, as is Oly and Panny.
Pentax, whoever they are, will continue to be a player in the SLR market but
will not catch Canon or Nikon, ever.

And as far as them getting out of the compact business, well, they're
cameras sucked and weren't competitive with Canon or Sony.

"ray" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:20:02 -0800, RichA wrote:

Near identical, rotten little silver boxes should be left to the
marketing companies like what's left of Vivitar and GE to produce.
Camera phones will replace the P&S at some point as well. If this story
is true, Pentax is doing the right thing. The evolution of this will be
mirrorless DSLRs.

Already have them - they're called EVF.


And if the EVF ever gets out of the stone age, we might hae something...

"flambe" wrote in message
t...
What is Pentax anyway?
They are basically a name sold to Samsung and who knows what Hoya is
getting out of the deal?
The very small Pentax lens lineup is actually made by what Japanese
manufacturer: hint--starts with a "T" and not a "P".
The current issue of Shutterbug is pimping a non/pre-preproduction Pentax
dSLR with a sensor made by who?
For the near term the only old line Japanese SLR makers still in the race
are Nikon and Canon.
For the rest of the market the real question is how long will Olympus,
Sony, Panasonic, Pentax, et al hang in there?
In any event the market for P&Ses dwarfs the dSLR market. However price
beats quality in most of this market segment.


Pentax designed the new 14.6MP sensor, Samsung made it.

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:23:09 -0000, "Steve B"
wrote in
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Pentax designed the new 14.6MP sensor, Samsung made it.

Citation?

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Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:16:19 GMT, "Jufi" wrote in
TtGsj.2495$YJ4.1052@trndny01:

"ray" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:20:02 -0800, RichA wrote:

Near identical, rotten little silver boxes should be left to the
marketing companies like what's left of Vivitar and GE to produce.
Camera phones will replace the P&S at some point as well. If this story
is true, Pentax is doing the right thing. The evolution of this will be
mirrorless DSLRs.

Already have them - they're called EVF.

And if the EVF ever gets out of the stone age, we might hae something...

Works fine here.

--
Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)