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Hoya Uncertain About Future of Pentax-Samsung Partnership

Zoltan Arva-Toth | Global | October 27, 2009 | 3 Comments
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Hoya Corporation are saying they will “not shut down” the Pentax business, but admit they definitely need a strong electronics company as a partner. Pentax currently has ties with Samsung, but apparently Hoya are not sure if the Sourh Korean company would be the ideal partner for the future. Bloomber quotes Hoya’s Chief Operating Officer Hiroshi Hamada as saying, “I don’t know whether we’ll go with Samsung or somebody else, but I can say that we’ll have a deeper relationship with some electronics guys”.

Source: Bloomberg via Amateur Photographer



 

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#1 slide

A pity Samsung, who did a more than just fair job on the K20-D sensor at the time it came to production, doesn't seem willing to push a new generation of the same resolution with a much improved nominal sensitivity - Canon goes up to 102400 ISO with almost the same per-pixel size !

9:00 am - Wednesday, October 28, 2009

#2 nano

Regardless of the claims being made, consindering the cooling relations between Samsung & Pentax, and the make-nice attitude towards Panasonic (but not Olympus), one has to wonder about Hoya's weighing a sale to Panasonic of the camera division that they were never much interested in to begin with..

12:18 pm - Wednesday, October 28, 2009

#3 Pentaxinaut

Sigma & Pentax?

6:07 am - Monday, June 21, 2010

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