Nikon to end camera production in Japan
Dec 23, 2020 09:30:15 #
Race Raccoon wrote:
People keep saying Nikon is losing money. Is that really so or is Nikon actually not selling as much as in the past?
Unsure if your question is rhetorical or a cry for an education. Maybe you missed the charts on page 5 of this thread, showing now #3 Nikon continuing to shrink in a drastically shrinking market?
You can follow the links in the article below at your leisure, but at least scroll down far enough to find:
This more detailed financial analysis comes after Nikon’s announcement in May that it would lay off 700 employees in Southeast Asia and news from earlier this month that the company was cutting 20% of its international workforce. Nikon’s latest moves appear to be an attempt to reorganize itself back to profitability, but the many decisions the company has made leading up to this point appear to be making recovery sluggish.
https://petapixel.com/2020/11/23/nikon-in-dire-straits-as-its-slump-is-particularly-untimely-report/
Dec 23, 2020 09:30:37 #
Gasman57 wrote:
Since no one on this forum sits on the Nikon Board of Directors, this discussion is all BS.
No one has to sit on the board of a publicly traded company as they have to publish audited financial results. Their CEOs also tend to give published interviews, sometimes with candid observations like this message in Nov 2019:
Nikon CEO Toshikazu Umatate says its cameras need to justify their existence as a business.
https://petapixel.com/2019/11/12/nikon-says-its-cameras-need-to-justify-their-existence-as-a-business/
Dec 23, 2020 10:05:50 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I found out that is no longer the case. Most of the Fujifilm cameras are now made in China. The changes were made about 2 years ago.
Depends on what market the camera will be sold in. For example, the X-T4 is made in both China and Japan, but those sold in the US come from Japan, and the lens I just bought (XF-90) was also made in Japan. It’s likely about the tariffs on Chinese vs Japanese goods entering the US.
Dec 23, 2020 10:16:36 #
Pixljockey
Loc: Southeast Pa.
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No way. br br Your post really belongs in The At... (show quote)
I see a totally accurate post from Indy55, and an answer that belongs in the attic. Clearly there’s someone you don’t like...
Dec 23, 2020 10:37:11 #
SX2002 wrote:
So what...both my D7200 and my D500 are made in Thailand...the only lens manufacturer still making lenses in Japan is Sigma I've been told...if it's made well and does what it supposed to I don't care where it's made...
You must have been told incorrectly - both Canon and Fuji are still making lenses in Japan.
Dec 23, 2020 10:48:30 #
Longshadow wrote:
Evidently...
Can't shoot Nikon.
(Probably going to be made in China.)
Can't shoot Nikon.
(Probably going to be made in China.)
Well, that revelation does not surprise me, Cheaper Production Costs I suppose, why not come and make them in the U.S.A.,...Yea Right,....Cost would really Sky-Rocket, and I do not mean Space-X
Dec 23, 2020 12:01:12 #
I think most serious photographers would agree that it’s not the camera, but rather the person behind it, that makes the photograph.
Dec 23, 2020 12:04:59 #
New Mexico Dave wrote:
Biased comment. You are are good critic, but do not own Nikon much and certainly have no photos published or on covers of magazines. Canon is a great company, but so is Nikon, Sony and others. Why so biased?
Undirected reverse pointlessness.
Dec 23, 2020 12:08:06 #
BARRY COWAN wrote:
I think most serious photographers would agree that it’s not the camera, but rather the person behind it, that makes the photograph.
That comment is parroted so often that by now you should be realizing that it can’t be true.
Dec 23, 2020 12:11:35 #
Dec 23, 2020 12:11:50 #
Successful photographers do the one thing the unsuccessful are unwilling to do: they buy better equipment.
Dec 23, 2020 12:22:56 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
No one has to sit on the board of a publicly traded company as they have to publish audited financial results. Their CEOs also tend to give published interviews, sometimes with candid observations like this message in Nov 2019:
Nikon CEO Toshikazu Umatate says its cameras need to justify their existence as a business.
https://petapixel.com/2019/11/12/nikon-says-its-cameras-need-to-justify-their-existence-as-a-business/
Nikon CEO Toshikazu Umatate says its cameras need to justify their existence as a business.
https://petapixel.com/2019/11/12/nikon-says-its-cameras-need-to-justify-their-existence-as-a-business/
But speculating their future strategy as if your in the know is BS.
Dec 23, 2020 12:25:34 #
Gasman57 wrote:
But speculating their future strategy is BS
You've got a lot of messengers to shoot: all the trade writers and the stock market and the investors. Good luck.
Dec 23, 2020 12:28:47 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
You've got a lot of messengers to shoot: all the trade writers and the stock market and the investors. Good luck.
Do you really think they will divulge their plans and strategies to the public whether it's an interview or public statement?
Dec 23, 2020 12:29:21 #
On the contrary, the camera does not make the photographer. Some of the greatest photographs ever taken were shot with equipment far inferior to what is available today. It is the skill and technique of the photographer that makes the photograph. A skilled photographer can even get a good photograph using a Canon.
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