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Konica Minolta Quits Photography Market

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the harsh-world-out-there dept.

halenger writes "Japanese photographic equipment maker Konica Minolta has announced plans to withdraw from the camera business. Konica Minolta said the market had become too competitive, and added it would sell its digital camera business to Japanese electronics giant Sony." From the article: "Its decision to ditch the camera business altogether includes the cessation of its colour film and photo paper business, in which it has trailed Eastman Kodak of the US and Japan's Fuji Photo Film. Instead, it plans to focus on products such as colour office photocopiers and medical imaging equipment." We just recently reported on the decision by Nikon to go completely digital.

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  1. Focus on the future by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Japanese photographic equipment maker Konica Minolta has announced plans to withdraw from the camera business."

    Was this a well-thought out resolution? Or just a snap decision?

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    1. Re:Focus on the future by stunt_penguin · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, they just developed this solution over time.

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  2. And in more local news... by ek_adam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Film is dead. Digital at 11.

  3. Sold to Sony? by TriezGamer · · Score: 2, Funny

    So next we'll have some form of DRM on pictures? No thanks, I'll stick to crayons and paper.

  4. Re:management speak decoded... by carlos_benj · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dang it! Your tags don't match. Now I'm going to have to read everything below this with suspicion.....

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  5. Re:Same as it ever was. by lcsjk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not sure exactly what you are raving about, but I agree with you about the soup!