Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., I beg to differ. On the manufacturing side we have lost Kyocera, Konica, Minolta. If sales don't pick up we will lose Olympus and NIkon within three years: Olympus after a major sale and pirating Nikon's coop dollars managed a whopping 11% market share in the U.S market. If Nikon doesn't start shipping huge quantities of D200's really soon they will be looking fondly on the stepper business. Kodak will probably be out of the camera business in less time based on the amount of space they gave cameras at PMA. On the retail side, the small players are going away as in closed doors with no one interested in the business. For photography related purchases we will soon be at Wal-Mart, Ritz, B&H, the local big box electronics store, and a few regional chains. K&S, Samy's, Bergen, and a few others will survive at least for this generation. Without a place to promote photography, we will end up with camera phones as the standard equipment. Strong words, sure; but you were not talking to the folks in the photo business in Florida. An indication of how things are going is the serious talk of folding PMA into CES. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 3/21/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: > > Possibly, it is because the advent of digital has mostly > > been disastrous to the photographic industry. > > > > Don > No, it's caused major changes in the photographic industry. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >