[Leica] Konica Minolta to quit photo market

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Don Dory wrote:

> Companies that will be standing include Canon, Sony, Panasonic, and
> NIkon(maybe).  There will be a huge confluence of photography with phones
> and MP3 players for the masses.  If you can't be in those markets then you
> will be out.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com

Unless you can do something about your costs and consciously seek to be a 
niche 
player. Which is Solms problem, they can do the second, but can't get their 
act 
round the first bit. Volume isn't everything, economics is.

The trouble for all film camera makers is that control of their market is 
out of 
their hands to a large extent, being in the hands of the likes of Kodak and 
so 
on. That's why I welcome the arrival of Efke and so on and the desire to 
continue of Fuji and others.

Peter Dzwig