Originally posted by cali92rs C'mon guys...this the same "(insert camera company) is doomed" talk that plagues every camera message board. Let me take that back...EVERY tech board (MS is doomed, apple is doomed, Chevy is doomed, samsung is doomed etc etc).
I don't think Nikon is "doomed", but they are entering into a death spiral like we had here at Pentax, right before the MZ-D fiasco, and into 2003.
Right up until the MZ-D, Pentax was making a ton of crappy low quality 35mm cameras.
Sure, there was the MZ-S, and *maybe* the *ist, but it was too little too late.
The MZ-D was going to be a "hail mary" and we know how that turned out.
The majority of the PZ,ZX/MZ, lines, were plastic and lesser quality, as Pentax made too many cameras for the market and tried to do what Nikon is doing.
Pentax was in a death spiral until the *Ist-D came, and it took a decade to crawl out of it.