Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem becomes: > > 1. Pentax management may have little control when major interests enforce > their wishes. > 2. Shareholders view it largely as as being about money, not about cameras. > > In addition, reports are that Hoya has little need for underperforming units > and therefore little need for the managment that has been guiding those > underperforming units. As Urano put it, they were 'saving their own necks'.
I find my self wondering if Samsung might like to play. They are big enough overall that they could buy Pentax's camera division out of petty cash. Would they? Getting Pentax would make them a major player in the digital camera maket. Letting someone else buy and trash it would cause them problems. What I'd really like to see is Samsung buy Pentax, then buy Foveon and apply their state-of-the-art chip production technology (last I looked they were the world's largest RAM vendor) stuff to Foveon's sensors. That would give them far and away the best DSLRs available. -- Sandy Harris Quanzhou, Fujian, China -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
