For one thing I see a lot of stuff that says Pentax on it in my doctor's examining rooms. Pentax does not just make cameras, I doubt that cameras are their main income. However I doubt that Pentax is big enough for one section of the company to subsidise another. In some ways Pentax cameras have always seemed to be a company advocation rather than a serious business. Plus Pentax pretty much dominated the P&S business and they are strong in that segment of the digital world too. Pentax no doubt could get along fine without producing an SLR of any description, but it is nice for us that they don't want to. While they are seriously moving into digital, they don't seem to be betting the company on it like a few others seem to be doing.
However, that said, Pentax and Nikon always have seemed to have some kind of ties. Just what they are has never been clear, but it always has seemed like Pentax and Nikon were on one side of the fence, and all the others on the other side even as far back as 1961.
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Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:
Would you be surprised if Pentax would marry Nikon??? I wouldn't.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
