QuantumTiger said:
It's a real shame - Minolta's cameras were real photographer's camera in terms of ergonmics and features. They were also a very inovative company. But your second point says it all. I went Canon largely on the basis of lens selection.Adey Baker said:It's a competitive world out there! Minolta don't seem to have been able to keep up - by the time they finally got round to bringing out a DSLR they had probably lost a lot of business to their competitors.
They're anti-shake system within the body is a good idea but bird-photographers are not going to use it in droves for one simple reason - lenses.
I couldn't agree more!Tannin said:Sony woild be pretty close to my last choice as the new owner of the proud Minolta heritage. Sony is a firm that has become fat and bloated and distracted by its massive content holdings and is now very much on the way down as a hardware innovator. Instead of a focus on customer satisfaction, we have naked selfishness and greed (remember the rootkit scandal?); instead of genuine innovation, we get self-serving quirkiness to the customer's disadvantage (idiot notions like the propritary Memory Stick instead of industry standards like CF).
Keith Reeder said:Hi guys,
yeah, I know about the other sensor manufacturers (even Samsung are producing them), but I'd anticipate that it would be a significant (short term?) problem for any of Sony's current sensor customers to have to start from scratch with another supplier.
Negotiating new contracts, quality assuring the alternatives, confirming fitness for purpose - maybe re-engineering in-house cicuit boards to accept the new CCD - all of these would be issues that camera manufacturers would surely prefer to avoid?
PatT said:Rumors are starting to buzz about a whole new slew of high end lenses to be offered this summer by KM/Sony :-O . Although it appears doubtful if there will be an announcement at PMA :-C . The dpreview.com folks are getting excited...
Cheers.
Pat
compa said:I bet they are getting excited! It means that they will be getting a bunch of new advertisements on their site. I'd be getting excited too!
Keith Reeder said:Any more news on the Sony statement, Pat?