Konica Minolta stops selling any digital cameras in Canada

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... but will ccontinue to sell all analog stuff there.

Toni Peri at CVUG has pointed out this info

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05100302nokmdcs_4ca.asp

and as it turns out to be not beeing a joke, Bob Shell say he has verified this at KM personally !

Seems the Canadians did not buy much digital cameras, maybe because this stuff does not work well in really cold weather ? Or are the Canadiens simply people you can't talk into a hype easily 😉

Whatever the reason might be this is a surprising and funny story in times of a collapsing hype.

I guess if built-in heaters will be the next luxury feature they'll try to sell us as technical progress ?? 😀

Bertram
 
I read this a couple of weeks back and wondered what the reason really was. I thought maybe the problem was with finding a distributor. I don't really know, as this really seemed to be something out of the blue. I would think that Canadians are buying digital cameras just like everywhere else.
 
Reading an awful lot into that announcement are we?

This is very old news... basically everything Minolta, film or digital is being dumped in Canada, yes all FILM cameras except single use is being dumped also. What's left is what was originally Konica... that where the film and single use cameras come from.

What that will mean, is that any large retail chain will just import their own, and any warranty will be the "international" version.
 
Kin Lau said:
Reading an awful lot into that announcement are we?

This is very old news... basically everything Minolta, film or digital is being dumped in Canada, yes all FILM cameras except single use is being dumped also. What's left is what was originally Konica... that where the film and single use cameras come from.

What that will mean, is that any large retail chain will just import their own, and any warranty will be the "international" version.
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No! What it means is that Canadians have cleverly figured out that digital cameras are a fad - doomed to fade away in time - and they've wisely decided to stay the course with film. The rest of the world will soon catch up, and then all will be well again - no more digital cameras to pester and annoy us.

Thank goodness that nightmare is nearly over.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
bmattock said:
No! What it means is that Canadians have cleverly figured out that digital cameras are a fad - doomed to fade away in time - and they've wisely decided to stay the course with film. The rest of the world will soon catch up, and then all will be well again - no more digital cameras to pester and annoy us.

Thank goodness that nightmare is nearly over.
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Ah... that's why you're stocking piling old cameras. Once film is back in, you and wierdcollector Curt will have cornered the market. At least you have the Braun Paxette (the "other" german RF system) market cornered anyhow. World domination's the game eh!

hmmm... since we have a new "Bond" now, maybe you can audition for the new "villain".
 
Kin Lau said:
What that will mean, is that any large retail chain will just import their own, and any warranty will be the "international" version.
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Exactly, and if they don't find a distributor Canadians must buy in US.

And this happens because the Canadian DC market got too small for KM, a least too small to justify the costs for a KM sales organisatation.

I think it does not mean to "read something into it" if one takes this as an inidicator for a changing DC market. Kyocera recently announced to stop all digital P&S production and going the Handycam direction, another proof for a new period in the DC market.

The worst is stilll to come, when the sales cannot be driven any longer
by essential innovations, and whe everybody has bought already 3 or 4 cameras and gets tired of wasting money by following the innovation cycles again and again.

This point of saturation is in sight already, and it is terrible to see that the analog market got devasted almost completely to come there.

I do hope that this all is bringing us closer to the point where a top consumer DSLR comparable to a F 100 is around 750 Euro AND ( the AND is important ) the results look acceptable even for me, with my glasses ON I mean of course!


Bertram
 
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