Hoya (Pentax) looking for digital camera alliance
In an interview with Reuters Hoya’s CEO Hiroshi Suzuki said:
“I’m afraid it will need some sort of alliance with another company in the long term.”
Hoya owns Pentax, so indirectly this will be an alliance for Pentax. There is a whole discussion on this topic @ pentaxforums.com.
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It does seem like the buzz from Pentax K-7 has died down.
This was hyped as the best Pentax digital camera ever and an amazing value, so if it flops, what next?
So, I’m not surprised.
Hey has anyone heard some rumors about how Nikon is fixing to discontinue their D40 on September 24th ? Because everyone is talking about it…
I think it’s pretty much a given that they will discontinue the d40 now that the d3000 is out.
The d40 has been very very good to Nikon and to cheapskates like me who don’t need/want every bell and whistle, but it’s time for Nikon to move on.
I may keep mine forever though. I don’t have a reason to trade up at this point.
The D40 was discontinued few months ago – I covered that on Nikon Rumors:
http://nikonrumors.com/2009/03/02/nikon-d40-officially-discontinued.aspx
http://nikonrumors.com/2009/02/13/nikon-d40-discontinued-in-canada.aspx
I wonder if it’d be an alliance like the one Sony made with Konica Minolta – leading to eventual sale of it’s cameras part. I think that companies producing only point and shoot cameras now can be very interested in introducing to DSLR market.
really ??? disregarding Samsung??
So far. Ricoh will be the best choice. Ricoh and Casio.
Ricoh used to carry pentax’s own K-mount in their SLR.
Casio used to do pentax lens in their digital compacts.
Can three of them join and create super strong alliance like but better than four-thirds?
It’ll be really interesting to see Ricoh working with Pentax and still use Samsung’s technology.