Ryan wrote: > It's not well known to me... so do yo have a source? These product > lines are making money- my only source is a kodak person, and each > product has a business case behind it (and obviously this is w/o glass > revenue).
It is printed in every industry magazine or photo magazine in the world. It is widely admitted by the industry themsleves; Olympus, an digital market leader, recently claimed that no manufacturer was making money on digital. Olympus recently files operating loss of 60 Million dolars. > A loss leader for what? To downsell film cameras? To bring people into > the store to buy a Rebel? Doesn't happen. Loss leader are common in any industry for a variety of reasons. One of the important one for digital is that digital imaging is a growth market and that everyone wish to be in the best position when this segmet start to make money. > Yup- which is why image sensors (that we care about anyway) aren't a > commodity. According to Pentax in recent press release, image sensor are a commodity and Pentax (and others) treat it as such. P�l
