Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scott, For a brief month or two in December of 2004 Nikon sold a lot of D70's, a whole lot. Since then they haven't sold proportionally a lot of boxes. The D2X is doing so well they have a $500 rebate on it to move a few boxes. D200 production is so pathetic the rumor is that Nikon is holding them until April so that the first quarter of the fiscal year will be huge; meantime, photographers in need of a tool have little recourse but brand C. Nikon point and shoots are doing so well that the 4600 was blown out at $139 by a major chain(this is below most dealers cost) the new save the company P1 has seen its price cut to $300 from $449 after being on the market for something like five months. Now they have a whole new line of cameras that make every other P&S obsolete so they will also be heavily discounted on Nikon's tab. I took a look at their line at PMA and it is nothing special so should not take a major market share. If Nikon is going to stay in the camera business the D200 must be huge and I must be totally wrong about the P&S line up, not just a little wrong. :) Don don.dory@gmail.com On 3/22/06, Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > > I could be very mistaken, but I thought that Nikon's camera biz had > been doing well financially over the past few years, largely due to the > popularity of the D70. > > But my memory could be off. > > Scott > > Don Dory wrote: > > >B.D., > >I beg to differ. On the manufacturing side we have lost Kyocera, Konica, > >Minolta. If sales don't pick up we will lose Olympus and NIkon within > three > >years: Olympus after a major sale and pirating Nikon's coop dollars > managed > >a whopping 11% market share in the U.S market. If Nikon doesn't start > >shipping huge quantities of D200's really soon they will be looking > fondly > >on the stepper business. Kodak will probably be out of the camera > business > >in less time based on the amount of space they gave cameras at PMA. > > > > > > > > -- > Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps > Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 > (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >