Re: Konica Minolta withdraw from camera business

burnsdavidj@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Wow. My condolances to Alan Browne...

Thanks, but it's not _that_ bad. My gear will work for at least another 10 years; Sony will put out a DSLR shortly (prob 10 Mpix) that uses my lenses and hopefully my flashes. I still have two Minolta film bodies that work just fine as well as the very good 7D.

This will all inspire me more to use my Hasselblad. No batteries. Just great images.

Both the 5D and 7Ds were good DSLRs; clearly KM couldn't market them in
North America to save their lives.

If they had been to market a year earlier, they would have done quite well, I believe. Konica f'd them up hard during the acquisition.

Maybe the Sony acquisition of the intellectual property is a good
thing...Sony has more leverage market place wise, although for the last
4-5 years they've really lost their innovative touch.

I fear that Sony will do a poor job wrt to photographer ergonomics when they do the DSLR. One hopes that they would look at the Maxxum 7, 9 and 7D for the "right way" to do an SLR.

Sony was once a very high quality house but in the onslought of Chinese and Korean high quality electronics at a much lower price, Sony have "de-qualitied".

Cheers,
Alan.


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