Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I could be very mistaken, but I thought that Nikon's camera biz had been doing well financially over the past few years, largely due to the popularity of the D70. But my memory could be off. Scott Don Dory wrote: >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. > > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)