This is a very interesting set of slide shows (at least the 3 of them I have looked at). Having spent 8 years in Rochester, and having been a loyal user of Kodak film for 40 years (before I got an istD), the shows on Kodak were particularly interesting, and painful.
IIRC, the K7 is the first camera developed under Hoya's ownership; it will be interesting to see how it it is marketed, how it does, and how Pentax/Hoya fill in the rest of their product line. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 6/9/09, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > Recall LL had an interesting article > on the fall of the old camera industry. The fellow has his > own website with a bunch of interesting slideshows to expand > on the subject > > http://www.christiansandstrom.org/disruptivestories.php > (too much for one page, but I digress) > > ...including this somber one on Pentax. The one comment > mentions (rather snidely I thought) that the K-7 should > prove him wrong. Maybe, but Christian does have some valid > points. And unless it is an iPhone, one product is unlikely > to be the total saviour of a company. > > http://www.slideshare.net/Christiansandstrom/disruptive-innovation-and-pentax > > If nothing else, there is some tasty camera pr0n to be had > on the slideshows. > > D > > > -- > [email protected] > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
