根據www.iht.com報導
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/26/yourmoney/mjapan.php

保有Pentax 21％股票的大股東 SPARX Asset Management ，
向Pentax的經營層建議，Pentax自數位相機生產撤退。
因為數位相機產品周期太短，對相機(光學?)製造廠來說並不適合。

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Abe:
Let me discuss Pentax, of which we hold 21 percent.
Pentax is an optical technology company that is known for making single-reflex lenses.
Japanese camera makers have their roots in lens making and optical technology.
Leveraging its technological strength, Pentax has diversified into endoscopy, an area that Japanese companies monopolize.
The neat thing about the endoscope business is that once you become a supplier, you have a lock on demand for parts replacement the same way copy machine makers benefit from continuing demand for, say, toner.
The mistake that Pentax and other camera manufacturers made was in digital cameras, which as a business are not like cameras but more like home electronics, with short product cycles.
It's not an efficient business for camera manufacturers to be in. We have been in talks with the Pentax management and have been suggesting that they exit from digital camera manufacturing.
This also represents a new way of communicating and relating with the management as shareholders.
There are lots of Japanese companies that can improve through an arrangement whereby shareholders, management and employees share in the benefits.

個人猜測，
這也許是要效法Konica Minolta ，
要將Pentax相機部門趁目前好價時賣給SAMSUNG的試探發言

引文:

Pentax是有可能要賣相機部門
不過我想不會賣給Samsung

只是因為民族情結而已

希望不出相機後改出成C, N 接環

家電廠商加入,Pentax 不同於 Nikon 及 Canon 條件, Pentax 數位相機長遠來看是不佳的。

感歎相機發展至今,也變成和汽車工業一樣,資本雄厚的大廠才活的下去
但是千萬別搞到和PC的CPU一樣,只剩下兩家好嗎

沒辦法.......趨勢所致...畢竟PENTAX雖然是有它的特色..可是大眾所需求的PENTAX無法完全供給...導致現在可能會有三國鼎立的趨勢..C,N,Sony(minolta).....市場現實必須面對....無奈啊~~"

希望Pentax可以繼續經營下去,或許可以試試看發展新的市場吧~(DC停掉就算了~)

像現在Pentax APS-DSLR機身價位不高,體積小,裡面的電路板看起來也不大,
若嘗試利用這些先天條件來復刻ESPIO mini Digital...似乎是想的太美了

COSINA, TAMRON, SIGMA都可以生存
為何PENTAX不行??

機身賣不好就賣鏡頭啊!!~
生產N, C接環，這也是個好主意!!~

引文:
其實PENTAX好像已經透過Tokina這樣做了