My flame bait?
What do you call that:
Originally posted by ftpaddict Here's the strategy:
Buy an ailing company for a miserly sum of money. Trim down the dead branches, rake the leaves. Make it profitable; sell it for 3 times the amount you bought it for.
on a positive topic about Pentax? You, again, fail to answer to this question - hiding behind your fingers.
Besides, you fail to prove every single point you make. That Pentax - in the K10D's days of glory - was an ailing company (they were profitable back then, btw). That Hoya's intent was, even for a moment, to keep the medical and sell the camera division. And that they could make a profit this way (very doubtful, IMO).
Why should we endlessly discuss the "what if Pentax will be sold" scenario? I'm getting bored with that. "Pentax will be sold to Samsung", "Pentax will be sold to Fuji", "Pentax will be sold to BenQ", "Pentax will be sold to anyone". Nonsense - and I'd suggest you must read (and try to comprehend) the old Romanian story about the salt boulder (for non-Romanians: yes, it's a "the sky is falling!"-like story, about a salt boulder that could fall and kill a baby. Sorry, I don't know of any English translation).
There are clear hints that Hoya is serious about Pentax, and we see clear proof on this matter: successful products like the K-m, K-7 and, now, the K-x (which, I don't have a doubt, will sell quite well). And, no matter what you say, Pentax being sold
is a sign of weakness, a high degree of uncertainty about their future.
In the end, it doesn't matter even if Pentax will disappear tomorrow; I would use my Pentax gear for the moment, and slowly switch (probably) to Nikon. But why even consider such an unlikely scenario? I like the constructive, the reasonable optimistic approach. Can Pentax succeed? Yep. Will they? Probably. Should I buy a Pentax product, if I want one, or maybe I should endlessly cry "the sky is falling, soon Pentax might be sold"? I guess my brand new 60-250 (yes, I'm bragging here
) answers this.
And now, since you decided you'll stop replying, I hope now we will be able to enjoy a quite positive view of Hoya/Pentax Imaging Systems evolution. After all, the sky is not falling yet