One of the things they plan to ramp up is P&S cameras, (it says so right in the text of the article), seemingly in the face of Pentax's low margins on these cameras. Most of these cameras are commodities, you can go into any camera or big box store and look at the various models an compare. It doesn't matter what the nameplate is, most are made in the same factories. Canon doesn't have to outsource they have their own factories, to turn out the lower end stuff, and can capture all the profit. Pentax can't.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 6/1/2007 9:55:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This will end with Hoya, and unless the Imaging division can > stand on it's own, it will end soon thereafter. > > =========== > If they drop P&S and expensive plans for a D645, then they may do quite > well, since their DSLRs are doing quite well. Anyway, I think they probably > got > their agreement that they will have independent management (er an > independent > direction) for two years. So they have two years to make their camera > division even more profitable. That's my take on it, anyway. The rest will > be up to > Pentax. Though it would be nice if Hoya would drop some money on the camera > division. But you are probably right, if they mainly deal in commodities, > they > won't. > > Marnie aka Doe > > --------------------------------------------- > Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. > > -- All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
