This was a shocker this morning as I read this. Konica Minolta is getting out of the camera business and is transferring their assets to Sony, as of March 31, 2006. So that means, all support for Konica Minolta will be through Sony, and Konica Minolta and Sony will joint develop technologies for digital cameras. I bought a Konica Minolta camera, the G500 which I find is a pretty good camera, except I had to service it twice. The repairs were pretty quick so I was quite satisfied, even when my warranty expired, they managed to service it for free which was really great!
According to this article, Zoomtron will take over the camera repairs for Konica Minolta and they have a branch in Mississauga, so it's nice to know that if my camera has any problems again, I can service it. Of course, I'll probably get an even better digital camera when that time comes! So, Konica Minolta is out of Canada, at least for their camera business.
My thoughts? Well, I really liked Konica Minolta, I had a film camera and a digital camera. They were a well respected camera company so I trusted them. Now, Sony is just getting bigger and bigger, they are becoming the Microsoft of photo and digital camera and imaging I think.
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