While I was looking into the financial reports for Pentax (yeah, wanna get a Pentax but I do not have $8K atm...) before I make any important decisions, was surprised that their mission statement or vision statement does not state cameras, but digital cameras.
Their board of directors/management seems to be changed since last year, and their biggest revenue income is still from the camera division dispute having a medical division. Their sales is currently about US$1.4bn+/- while aiming to hit US$2bn by 2007 with US$160m profits.
If you ask me, I would say their position is much better than Leica (the camera company only hence the disadvantage) as Pentax itself is having medical and imaging division under 1 company. They have just merged their Pentax Sales company to their main company so I guess the reforms are being carried out slowly.
They have a pretty fine 645NII and 67II system. The 35mm offerings are also good, also performance wise overall might not be as good as Canon/Nikon.
Their board of directors/management seems to be changed since last year, and their biggest revenue income is still from the camera division dispute having a medical division. Their sales is currently about US$1.4bn+/- while aiming to hit US$2bn by 2007 with US$160m profits.
If you ask me, I would say their position is much better than Leica (the camera company only hence the disadvantage) as Pentax itself is having medical and imaging division under 1 company. They have just merged their Pentax Sales company to their main company so I guess the reforms are being carried out slowly.
They have a pretty fine 645NII and 67II system. The 35mm offerings are also good, also performance wise overall might not be as good as Canon/Nikon.