Originally posted by monochrome When the compact camera assembly plant was written down as ‘Impaired P&E’ in March, 2017 and taken onto Ricoh’s balance sheet for manufacturing automotive products
You make that sound like engineering parts, not cameras.
Originally posted by monochrome any pretense that Ricoh / Pentax would continue Q line was foreclosed.
Pentax doesn’t have enough 1;1.7 sensor volume without compact cameras to economically continue Q bodies, and doesn’t have anywhere to assemble them if they did.
Yet they're still churning out WGs and Thetas.
And as far as I remember,
they managed to offer the MX-1 without making it themselves
(it didn't even offer PEF raws).