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03/19/2006 05:46:51 PM · #1 |
Yep dear felows Konica Minolta is closing down , after so many years of camera making they cannot compete no more with the market and demand ,so they are packing it in .Yep no more Konica Minolta apparently all the service and parts will be run by some other company not known as yet ,so i will strongly advise you DO NOT BUY any of theyr products as it looks it all abit shady . They will close by the end of the year as may be few of you may already know or may be not!?
The sadest thing of all is they are one of the oldest camera makers if not the first ,i am not qute sure .
Thats good bye from me Konica Minolta .
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03/19/2006 05:51:23 PM · #2 |
Yep. It's been known for a while. However, they didn't farm it out to an unknown company.......unless Sony is unknown. :)
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03/19/2006 05:51:31 PM · #3 |
| That's Old News from way back in January. They are being taken over by Sony. |
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03/19/2006 05:52:58 PM · #4 |
Yeah, makes sense now why it's been difficult finding the lenses I want. Oh, what to do?
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03/19/2006 05:55:21 PM · #5 |
I only live in a small vilage lol
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03/19/2006 06:00:03 PM · #6 |
The thing you dont know is that if you take your camera for repair to sony service centre anywere ,unforchenatly they cannot do much for ya .Simply becouse they have taken over but not sorted any more than that !Guaranteed!
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03/19/2006 06:06:02 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by facesastheycome:
I only live in a small vilage lol |
LOL!
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03/19/2006 06:27:04 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by facesastheycome:
The thing you dont know is that if you take your camera for repair to sony service centre anywere ,unforchenatly they cannot do much for ya .Simply becouse they have taken over but not sorted any more than that !Guaranteed! |
As long as I have your personal guarantee then that is good enough for me. Do you have any other insider info that might help us out?
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03/19/2006 06:41:26 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by dudephil:
Originally posted by facesastheycome:
The thing you dont know is that if you take your camera for repair to sony service centre anywere ,unforchenatly they cannot do much for ya .Simply becouse they have taken over but not sorted any more than that !Guaranteed! |
As long as I have your personal guarantee then that is good enough for me. Do you have any other insider info that might help us out? |
No wories ,will keep you posted .At the moment the situation is a litle bit like Sony and Erricson before they became one Trade mark in the Mobilephone bussiness .May be we will be for surprise next year with a name like Sonycaminolta ,lol .As it seems Sony have the habbit of taking over stailed and falling apart companies and making a huge profit in the end but we will see.
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03/19/2006 07:11:37 PM · #10 |
as i heard the the sony dslr will have konica-minolta mount for lenses
really !
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03/19/2006 07:14:06 PM · #11 |
| My first SLR was a Konica many years ago. Quirky but solid. RIP. |
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03/19/2006 07:19:18 PM · #12 |
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03/19/2006 08:30:10 PM · #13 |
Some recent info on service and repairs during the KM to Sony transition.
Konica Minolta and Sony: Service and repair update
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03/19/2006 09:04:20 PM · #14 |
No great loss, if you ask me.
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03/19/2006 09:22:51 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by riot:
No great loss, if you ask me. |
that's a riot.
no one did.
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03/19/2006 09:24:24 PM · #16 |
Actually, I'm sorta sad at the loss, all my 35mm equipment is Minolta (minus the Konica) brand.
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03/19/2006 09:26:41 PM · #17 |
I think it's a great loss. KM has been around for a long time and has always been a reputable company. Also, the 7D beat out almost 200 cameras to win the 2005 Camera Grand Prix. It looks like they had everything down but the marketing :>).
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03/19/2006 09:28:53 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Actually, I'm sorta sad at the loss, all my 35mm equipment is Minolta (minus the Konica) brand. |
Hopefully some sort of Pheonix will rise from the ashes.
If you really look at it though, this is kind of like Leica having to team with Panasonic to make the Lumix cameras. Their new 4/3 SLR looks pretty nice, besides the 4/3 part that is.
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03/19/2006 09:38:20 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by wavelength:
Hopefully some sort of Pheonix will rise from the ashes. |
Sony has got that covered, I believe :)
If there's anything Sony cant do, marketing and $$$ isn't one of them. |
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