Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you have ever with or for a Japanese company, you realize that decision making is top down phenomenon. The boss decides what to do and the worker bees do it. They made a ton of money doing what they convinced the market they wanted..... an SLR camera that made sense ( take that you ALPA and Exacta Lovers!) They sold it to PJ's that wanted/needed long lenses. That fueled the market for the amateurs ( GI's taking leave in Japan or other places where the PX sold them cheap.) And they were off to the races. It was a good strategy, and it makes some Japanese marketing sense that this was a conscious decision to discontinue the SP line because Nikon DECIDED that RF cameras were dead. IMHO, It had nothing to do with a niche strategy.....it had to do with some high up Nikon dude deciding that this was the direction of the future, and if you discontinue all the other cameras, then you are right: It is the direction of the future. So the RF line went kaput. Simplistic? maybe. Right ? we may never know. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net