Jostein wrote: To a relatively speaking small company, that kind of investment has to be a risk to take. -Which of course increase the importance of finding the right moment to enter the market.
REPLY: Relative and relative. Relative to General Motors they are a small company but file as many patents. Pentax is a multi national company with factories, departments and research facilities in many countries. By the late 90's published figures they had larger photo/camera division than both Nikon and Minolta, not to mention Olympus and the rest (- Canon). It may well be that Canon, Nikon and Minolta are larger companies over all, but there's no way any of these companies are willing to put more money into their photo division that they can generate in return. P�l
