Ricoh bought Pentax
The company Ricoh buys Pentax photo business: news on the site Ricoh . The formerly one of the industry leaders, Pentax has never been able to compete adequately in the market for digital SLR cameras; a really good K-5 model appeared too late. According to Wikipedia, in 2010, Pentax occupied only 1.5% of the photographic equipment market.
In 2008, the company became part of the concern Hoya, engaged in the release of a variety of optics from contact lenses to lasers, but apparently did not meet the expectations of new shareholders. Now Pentax is bought, in fact, by a direct competitor. Ricoh company produces not only a variety of multifunction devices, but also digital cameras and camcorders, including it has its own professional modular system. Unlike Hoya, which simply expanded the range of products and left the Pentax photo division relatively independent, Ricoh may well intend to enhance its own photo division with Pentax patents, technologies and engineers - as Sony once did with Minolta and Konica. However, Ricoh itself has not yet made any statements about the future of Pentax system cameras.
In the circles of “pentaxoids”, there has long been an opinion about the slow dying of their system, and this deal may well put an end to the nearly 60-year history of Asahi-Pentax DSLRs. The prospects of the Pentax Q mirrorless system announced very recently from “very foggy” have become “extremely gloomy”.
Unfortunately, not all manufacturers of high-quality photographic equipment were able to adapt to the digital age. A decrease in competition always and everywhere leads to a deterioration in quality, a slowdown in progress and an increase in prices.
In 2008, the company became part of the concern Hoya, engaged in the release of a variety of optics from contact lenses to lasers, but apparently did not meet the expectations of new shareholders. Now Pentax is bought, in fact, by a direct competitor. Ricoh company produces not only a variety of multifunction devices, but also digital cameras and camcorders, including it has its own professional modular system. Unlike Hoya, which simply expanded the range of products and left the Pentax photo division relatively independent, Ricoh may well intend to enhance its own photo division with Pentax patents, technologies and engineers - as Sony once did with Minolta and Konica. However, Ricoh itself has not yet made any statements about the future of Pentax system cameras.
In the circles of “pentaxoids”, there has long been an opinion about the slow dying of their system, and this deal may well put an end to the nearly 60-year history of Asahi-Pentax DSLRs. The prospects of the Pentax Q mirrorless system announced very recently from “very foggy” have become “extremely gloomy”.
Unfortunately, not all manufacturers of high-quality photographic equipment were able to adapt to the digital age. A decrease in competition always and everywhere leads to a deterioration in quality, a slowdown in progress and an increase in prices.
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