Originally posted by eddie1960 Hoya really did the bare minimum to keep the brand viable while they looked to get rid of it
And if by doing the bare minimum they managed to make some profit, sell the camera division at a higher price than the one they paid for all the pentax entity and open some interesting paths as the MF one why is so many people panicking over the transaction that have led pentax to a company that has some real interest in the camera division?
I'm sure that ricoh ownership is better for pentax camera division than Hoya...K mount will not be discontinued...it would be a suicide move (on a millionaire investment) alienating the niche of consumers they have, leading them to the Canikon..
.And even if it was the case, it's just another company on the modern capitalism history...we would all cut our losses and move on. It's not as if a brand was meaningfull in any sense to who we are and what we do with the gear.
Originally posted by RioRico Hypotheticals:
* Canon buys Ricoh-Pentax and conquers the lucrative worlds of copiers and dSLRs.
* Facebook buys Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Ricoh, as expanded social-networking tools.
* Carlos Slim buys all dSLR makers; he's tired of phones and wants some cameras.
* CIA secretly buys all camera makers so they can spy on everyone, everywhere.
* Cthulhu returns, devours all humanity, but finds that cameras give him gas.
Discuss.
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....the CIA one is unfortunately not so crazy...it has been done with mobile phones (and the worse thing is that they didn't need to properly buy phone companys
maybe all those gps modules will become mandatory and send some positioning info as well).
Personally i prefer the Cthulhu option but i'm sure it'll be people like Slim the thing that gives him gas
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