Brian Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 <P>Already posted on the Minolta forum, a <a href="http://konicaminolta.com/releases/2006/0119_03_01.html">press release from KM</a> gives details and a timetable for withdrawal.</P> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emre Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Grab the scanner while you still can? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurs Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Now Sony will accelerate development of their new digital SLR cameras based on and compatible with the Maxxum/Dynax lens mount system, that's the good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurs Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 From April 1 2006, Konica Minolta PI will consign the customer service operations for Konica Minolta cameras and related products* to Sony, and Sony will implement service operations from that date onward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Time for K-M owners to start stocking up on Sony memory sticks... I wonder who will develop lenses for them? On a not totally unrelated note, anyone notice that Samsung have just released their first DSLR - which is a Pentax *ist DS2 with a Samsung logo on it. If K-M goes, can Pentax be far behind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I'm looking at Pentax, Olympus, and Nikon...more or less in that order.<p> Olympus says its concentrating on "high-end digital SLRs", and de-emphasizing compact digicams. given their present competition in that arena (Canon and Nikon), I'd say they just cut their corporate life-expectancy (at least regarding photography) from five years to about two...max.<p> Nikon <i>still</i> doesn't have an SLR with a full-frame sensor. Canon now has two. Nikon seems to be saying "it doesn't matter". How many 5D sales will it take to say it does? With this attitude, I'll give them two more years than Olympus.<p> Pentax? any time now...<p> This, of course, leaves Canon. Until, that is, camera-phones break the 5mp barrier, and more people simply pull frame-grabs from their HD camcorders...<p> But what do I know? I largely shoot film.<p> - Barrett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Maybe a LG camera is on the horizion. Life is Good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 LG is a good guess. Digicams are consumer electronics products, and the big players in the future will be Sony, Panasonic and Samsung. LG can get some of the cake as well if they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurs Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I wonder what Canon will do. LG? No, not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gib Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Sony exec says a little more about KM and DSLR http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17907220%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas_sullivan Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 that Sony link is good news. even though Sony is mostly looked at as a mass market manufacturer, they have in the past.......apparently when they put their minds to it......come up with some very high quality products that rivalled top end gear. Stereophile has praised quite a few of their audio products over the years...and considering Stereophile's list of manufacturers they review, that's saying something. If Sony goes for that higher end market with the DSLR technology and lens base that KM offers, this could be extremely good news. Looking forward to the Sony KM-7D....heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 LG makes CD CDRW DVD readers, washing machines, alot of freon compressors, cellphone cameras, and has its toes in optics, mechanics, electronics, computers, electric motors, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 LG is already making digital cameras; a la camera phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurs Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Motorola has camera cellphones too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeselgroth Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I hate the big biz corp. world, you all know that Minolta could compete with Canon and Nikon if they wanted. They just want to line their pockets with out doing any work to earn it. But I still love their top end cameras. (maxxum 9,800si,and even the 7d). It just pisses me off that they would jump ship and closes up their film & digital camera depts like that. It figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 <P><I>...could compete with Canon and Nikon if they wanted...</I> yes, and this is a good reminder that business, even big business, is run by people, and the people at the top steer a company in the direction they wish to take. And for this reason it's unwise to form emotional attachments to particular camera brands.</P> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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