Re: Minolta exits camera business

no_name wrote:

The announcement also seems to indicate KM will continue to manufacture some cameras and lenses for Sony to sell. At least that's how I interpret the following:

I think Sony will rely upon Tamron or Carl Ziess for glass *if* they provide continuing lens designs. But I doubt that they will make any new lenses at all.

I believe Sony's strategy will be to sell bodies to Minolta lens owners, period (16 million Maxxum/Dynax lenses out there). Lenses last a long time and there will be a lot of body iterations in the DSLR world.

It's also not clear regarding flashes. Who will make them? Will they be "Sony" system; hot-shoe comaptible or Maxxum-shoe compatible...




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