Digital BW, The Print

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From: <daschkenas@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Foveon camera
>  It might not be utilized to its best end as it could have been had the
partnership happened with Nikon or Cannon.  He went on > to say that Foveon
desperatey tried to partner with the Biggies, but they were too
CONSERVATIVE, and that Sigma was the > only company that would listen.

..and is it not always thus. I would suggest that none of the big
manufacturers R&D much themselves, and they will have extablished
relationships with current suppliers to a degree where personalities and
their reffect react against real change.

I guess the biggies have yet to understand that within the next ten years
cameras will be made by many other organisations who have no track record in
the photographic industry. These organisations will eventually bury the
established companies and perhaps even take them over.

On certain groups even now you can see the social attitude problem exposed
through the course of events taking place at Polaroid.
In effect this once great company is about to be broken up and that is the
simple truth. What so many remember with affection is their apparant quality
of service which, I would submit, never enabled any organisation to survive
in business when change is in the air. Polaroid are going down becuause they
were not well enough run as a business, and the is what always happens.

If the production batch of Favron meets the companies claims then they will
be "in" and neither Canon or Nikon or any of the other established camera
manufacturers will be able to do anything about it.

I look forward to the day when no photographic enthusiast will be forced to
buy a particular body for a specific lens but both will be fully
interchangeable so that if a Nikon 16Mp 35mm CCD looks "the business" then I
could buy it and use my canon lenses with it.

I really can hardly wait, but I probably will have to, meanwhile i am
looking at the value of Sigma shares and having a good think.