Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My take, looking at the still camera business worldwide, is very different. Nikon has a much better chance of surviving than Sony or Panasonic's still camera divisions - the latter two are so miniscule within their companies that they are irrelevant, and the impact on the top line and bottom line disappears in the rounding off of numbers for reporting. The first downturn that hits the consumer electronics division of those two (especially Playstation for Sony) is a time fraught with peril for the divisions, which would be virtually the first to get shuttered being cost centres, and not profit centres, as of now. Their best chance of survival is to merge with the video camera divisions, which are huge, but that will have the effect of the still camera operations being a tiny fish in a pond the size of Lake Baikal! Interesting times ahead. Even if Nikon gets sold, I expect the mount to survive, because nobody will buy the company if not for the camera division. By the way, they have ample cash on their balance sheet that their survival for the next few years is hardly in doubt. I would modestly invest in the Nikon ADRs, as a great contrarian play. I have already done so! :-) Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 11:23 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Happy you didn?t too ? > > RIP D4 - Nikon might eventually survive ? > > No FB for me please, I?m allergic to it, so do the doctors say, and some > of them are wiser than me ? > > > Amities > > Philippe > > > > > Le 1 oct. 2020 ? 19:32, Mark Kronquist via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > > > > Ruined carpets and a D4 died whilst shooting pix on my FaceBok Mark > Kronquist which is open to all > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information