Pentax produces 120,000 or so DS's in 2005 according to numbers posted here earlier (Nikon and Canon do that in a month of course, per model). At a conservative estimate of 1kg/box (Since the camera is about 1lb, plus packaging, CD's, cables, batteries, etc). That's 120 tons of DS's a year, including packaging. Plus whatever number of P&S's and the other DSLR's and lenses and other such sundries and the packaging of the P&S jobs is maybe half the size of the DS's. And given market size, probably 1/3 of them came to to North America (As Europe and the US are similar sized markets and Asia is collectively around the same sized market). That's easily a few containerloads a year to Pentax US.
-Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: >Okay, my last post was an exaggeration. But it takes Pentax a long >time to sell 40 tons of cameras worldwide, let alone to one market. I >would guess shipments to distributors average quite a bit less than >one ton. >Paul >On Jul 9, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > > > >>John Forbes wrote: >> >> >> >>>Aaron, >>> >>>When you're in a hole, stop digging. >>> >>>And put your brain in gear. >>> >>>As Don points out, large quantities would result in lower prices, not >>>higher ones. >>> >>>I suspect whoever posted this meant $1,000/ton, not per pound. >>>And LESS >>>for larger quantities. If larger quantities cost more, people >>>would just >>>ship consignments of one, wouldn't they? >>> >>>Work it out for yourself. >>> >>>John >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>After a certain point, it gets more expensive, not less. Which is >>why we >>use container ships rather than sending 40 ton containers by air >>freight. >> >> >>-Adam >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
