Originally posted by Blue There's plenty of vagary there in the Ricoh statement.
They are looking to pursue medium-format for documentation and so the first action would be to drop the 645D line? As far as MFD, the 645D seems to be a success, so they will drop it? They just released the 645 25mm, which Ricoh would have known about, so then they drop the line? And because they have been sold to a richer company, they will now drop the 645D?
Naturally, if you can find a more detailed statement about product line development in any merger press release, please let me know. Hasselblad just got sold and the buyer's statement is even more vague.
If Ricoh is wanting to build their photo division, they will build on successes, not eliminate them. Like Sony before them, this purchase is a great way to enter photographic markets like DSLRs and MFD. I think the cache of being in the MFD market is going to help their image, no pun intended.
I really don't understand the panic this merger has caused.