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WTF Number 1:
From The Digital Photograghy Weblog:-
No more from the minds of Minolta. In a press release yesterday, Konica Minolta announced its plans for getting out of the Photography business after more than 130 years:
...in today’s era of digital cameras, where image sensor technologies such as CCD is indispensable, it became difficult to timely provide competitive products even with our top optical, mechanical and electronics technologies.
In photo business, represented by the silver-halide photography such as color film and color paper, we have produced Japan’s first photographic paper in 1903, and Japan’s first color film in 1940, thus pioneering joy of photography for more than a century. In 1984, we introduced the world’s first compact washless photofinishing system known as a minilab system. The minilabs contributed to the expansion of worldwide photographic market by making photos closer to consumers and amazingly shortening delivery time.
However, traditional silver-halide photographic market is shrinking astonishingly by the surge of the worldwide digitization. In such a changing world, profits for camera and photo businesses worsened in recent years, and it became necessary to drastically reform business structure for the further growth of Konica Minolta.
That "drastic" reformation has three main parts: 1) selling off all their paper phototography assests and ceasing production, service contracts on current minilab and other equipment will be shifted to 3rd parties; 2) laying off 3,700 employees worldwide; and most importantly for digital camera consumers, 3) transferring all digital camera assests to Sony in part of an expansion on their current joint development plan. Sony has apparently agreed to continue to support Maxxum/Dynax lens mounts and ensure compatibility with future Sony DSLRs.
All-in-all, it doesn't sound like a bad deal for consumers. We've been looking for a while for jointly designed cameras with the reliability and innovation we've always expected from Minolta, and the cutting edge consumer and electronics design we've come to expect from Sony, and this should only streamline the production process.
It is, though, a sad day. From the first coated lens, to the Hi-Matic that went with John Glenn on the first manned space mission, Konica and minolta have been a big part of photographic history, and through that the history of the 20th century.
[via Popular Photography]
WTF Number 2:
I can't believe they are actually teaching this shit in Junior Collages nowadays. THANK GOD I WENT TO POLY.
Celebrate Life! my ass. More like "Celebrate Lie!" or "Celebrate NO Life!".
From The Digital Photograghy Weblog:-
No more from the minds of Minolta. In a press release yesterday, Konica Minolta announced its plans for getting out of the Photography business after more than 130 years:
...in today’s era of digital cameras, where image sensor technologies such as CCD is indispensable, it became difficult to timely provide competitive products even with our top optical, mechanical and electronics technologies.
In photo business, represented by the silver-halide photography such as color film and color paper, we have produced Japan’s first photographic paper in 1903, and Japan’s first color film in 1940, thus pioneering joy of photography for more than a century. In 1984, we introduced the world’s first compact washless photofinishing system known as a minilab system. The minilabs contributed to the expansion of worldwide photographic market by making photos closer to consumers and amazingly shortening delivery time.
However, traditional silver-halide photographic market is shrinking astonishingly by the surge of the worldwide digitization. In such a changing world, profits for camera and photo businesses worsened in recent years, and it became necessary to drastically reform business structure for the further growth of Konica Minolta.
That "drastic" reformation has three main parts: 1) selling off all their paper phototography assests and ceasing production, service contracts on current minilab and other equipment will be shifted to 3rd parties; 2) laying off 3,700 employees worldwide; and most importantly for digital camera consumers, 3) transferring all digital camera assests to Sony in part of an expansion on their current joint development plan. Sony has apparently agreed to continue to support Maxxum/Dynax lens mounts and ensure compatibility with future Sony DSLRs.
All-in-all, it doesn't sound like a bad deal for consumers. We've been looking for a while for jointly designed cameras with the reliability and innovation we've always expected from Minolta, and the cutting edge consumer and electronics design we've come to expect from Sony, and this should only streamline the production process.
It is, though, a sad day. From the first coated lens, to the Hi-Matic that went with John Glenn on the first manned space mission, Konica and minolta have been a big part of photographic history, and through that the history of the 20th century.
[via Popular Photography]
WTF Number 2:
I can't believe they are actually teaching this shit in Junior Collages nowadays. THANK GOD I WENT TO POLY.
Celebrate Life! my ass. More like "Celebrate Lie!" or "Celebrate NO Life!".