Casio says No
May 10, 2018 10:23:22 #
Harry0
Loc: Gardena, Cal
Casio calls it quits for it's camera construction company.
Cites "new" and "young" people don't believe cameras are better than phones.
The division has lost money two years in a row.
Cites "new" and "young" people don't believe cameras are better than phones.
The division has lost money two years in a row.
May 10, 2018 10:40:50 #
Harry0 wrote:
Casio calls it quits for it's camera construction company.
Cites "new" and "young" people don't believe cameras are better than phones.
The division has lost money two years in a row.
Cites "new" and "young" people don't believe cameras are better than phones.
The division has lost money two years in a row.
Casio was still making cameras?????
May 10, 2018 10:46:27 #
Harry0 wrote:
Casio calls it quits for it's camera construction company.
Cites "new" and "young" people don't believe cameras are better than phones.
The division has lost money two years in a row.
Cites "new" and "young" people don't believe cameras are better than phones.
The division has lost money two years in a row.
Who is Casio? What DSLR did they make?
May 10, 2018 10:47:35 #
MT Shooter wrote:
Casio was still making cameras?????
Guess so! I'll sure miss them!
May 10, 2018 11:08:32 #
Harry0
Loc: Gardena, Cal
(in)Famous for their Casio Exilim series. A bit overpriced alternative to the powershot kinda thing.
By the time the saleslady finished her presentation of the thing I was sold- on the Nikon A900.
By the time the saleslady finished her presentation of the thing I was sold- on the Nikon A900.
May 10, 2018 11:09:58 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
Who is Casio? What DSLR did they make?
Casio was found by Tadao Kashio in Japan and their first product was a calculator.
May 10, 2018 11:33:01 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Casio was found by Tadao Kashio in Japan and their first product was a calculator.
They used to make brilliant calculator watches! Chicago's Mike Royko references (not by name) this watch in a classic column from 1985 making fun of people who wore a Rolex.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-12-13/news/8503260426_1_rolex-watch-wrist
May 10, 2018 13:18:15 #
dsmeltz wrote:
They used to make brilliant calculator watches! Chicago's Mike Royko references (not by name) this watch in a classic column from 1985 making fun of people who wore a Rolex.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-12-13/news/8503260426_1_rolex-watch-wrist
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-12-13/news/8503260426_1_rolex-watch-wrist
I used to love Mike Royko's columns. They were great.
Esp the one titled something like "It takes a short Greek" in which he compared the fancy Yuppie place in his office building where the manager (Harvard MBA) sat in a booth with spread sheets and a calculator doing numbers while the staff tried to cope with a waitress being out sick to the little place down the street where the (short) Greek owner would put on an apron and hustle to help while the other waiters and waitresses (1/2 his age) tried to keep up with him. Guess which place stayed open for decades and which one closed and opened under new management every couple of years!
May 10, 2018 13:28:42 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Casio was found by Tadao Kashio in Japan and their first product was a calculator.
And my first calculator was a scientific Casio ... $120. But, I did throw away my slide rule shortly after getting it.
They also sold it as a Sperry-Rand.
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May 10, 2018 13:45:42 #
Always sad news when a manufacturer decides to quit the camera business. Not only does this mean fewer brand and model choices for photographers, but it also can result in higher prices because of less competition for the remaining manufacturers.
The more companies producing cameras, the better.
The more companies producing cameras, the better.
May 10, 2018 13:56:53 #
I still wear a Casio watch every day and it is the most complete watch I own and I own MANY.... Can't say enough about Casio, but know nothing about their camera endeavors. The OP's quote of Casio saying " New and Young people don't believe cameras are better than phones " is right on the money....
May 10, 2018 15:35:16 #
Bill_de wrote:
And my first calculator was a scientific Casio ... $120. But, I did throw away my slide rule shortly after getting it.
They also sold it as a Sperry-Rand.
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They also sold it as a Sperry-Rand.
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Buying the calculators is a good thing but throwing away your slide rule isn't good.
May 10, 2018 16:47:57 #
Bill_de wrote:
And my first calculator was a scientific Casio ... $120. But, I did throw away my slide rule shortly after getting it.
They also sold it as a Sperry-Rand.
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They also sold it as a Sperry-Rand.
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I still have my slide rule!
Don't know what to do with it now.....
May 10, 2018 16:53:10 #
srt101fan wrote:
I still have my slide rule!
Don't know what to do with it now.....
Don't know what to do with it now.....
I use my slide rule. I actually never had slide rule but my old sister gave me hers. Since then I got several slide rules.
May 11, 2018 01:40:33 #
srt101fan wrote:
I still have my slide rule!
Don't know what to do with it now.....
Don't know what to do with it now.....
After my son got out of the Navy, he started college. I bought him a new desktop computer (a 486; unheard of); his mother bought him a boatload of software (a "package" deal; most of it useful). He called me to help him solve an engineering problem with Lotus. I couldn't help him with the spreadsheet, but I did work out a formula where he could input two variables and bypass a lot of the computer BS. He gave me a set of test variables, and I solved the problem. The last operation was the multiplication of two square roots. While his computer told him the formula was wrong and his desktop calculator churned out several feet of tape, I had solved the problem with a 12" bamboo K&E and verified it with an 18" aluminum Pickett with verniers scales!
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