Re: Fuji Medium Format Digital System is on it's way...
Tariq Gibran wrote: taran wrote: Tariq Gibran wrote:
There are existing manufacturing options outside of Sony to Panasonic (for Fuji) through the joint venture I linked earlier: http://www.towerjazz.com/manufacturing.html
Regardless, a capital infusion to Tower Jazz would be required and publicly stated, otherwise you would end up with Leica \"S\" prices. Fuji just couldn\'t sell 1000 units like leica and call it a success. They need the economies of scale. Hasselblad is already wedded to Sony, as is Pentax, so Fuji would be the only customer if they went to Tower. In other words, no way it would happen.
Also, Japanese companies tend to buy Japanese sensors.
Potential future customers could include Leica (who already use them), Fuji, Panasonic and possibly even Olympus (rumored to have a FF on the way). Heck, even Nikon is not out of the question, nor Ricoh. These guys will go where the technology is and if some future, groundbreaking sensor is available from Tower and not Sony, you can bet their would be customers.
As to you last point, that\'s already met as Tower is owned 49% by Panasonic and many of the sensor manufacturing sites are already located in Japan. Panasonic\'s strong involvement though is all that would likely matter.
Seems like an anti monopoly coalition attempting to form against Sony\'s dominance in the imaging sensor business. Probably a good thing as monopolists are usually not a good thing.
Re: Fuji Medium Format Digital System is on it's way...
Tariq Gibran wrote: taran wrote: Tariq Gibran wrote:
There are existing manufacturing options outside of Sony to Panasonic (for Fuji) through the joint venture I linked earlier: http://www.towerjazz.com/manufacturing.html
Regardless, a capital infusion to Tower Jazz would be required and publicly stated, otherwise you would end up with Leica \"S\" prices. Fuji just couldn\'t sell 1000 units like leica and call it a success. They need the economies of scale. Hasselblad is already wedded to Sony, as is Pentax, so Fuji would be the only customer if they went to Tower. In other words, no way it would happen.
Also, Japanese companies tend to buy Japanese sensors.
Potential future customers could include Leica (who already use them), Fuji, Panasonic and possibly even Olympus (rumored to have a FF on the way). Heck, even Nikon is not out of the question, nor Ricoh. These guys will go where the technology is and if some future, groundbreaking sensor is available from Tower and not Sony, you can bet their would be customers.
As to you last point, that\'s already met as Tower is owned 49% by Panasonic and many of the sensor manufacturing sites are already located in Japan. Panasonic\'s strong involvement though is all that would likely matter.
Seems like an anti monopoly coalition attempting to form against Sony\'s dominance in the imaging sensor business. Probably a good thing.
Re: Fuji Medium Format Digital System is on it's way...
Tariq Gibran wrote: taran wrote: Tariq Gibran wrote:
There are existing manufacturing options outside of Sony to Panasonic (for Fuji) through the joint venture I linked earlier: http://www.towerjazz.com/manufacturing.html
Regardless, a capital infusion to Tower Jazz would be required and publicly stated, otherwise you would end up with Leica \"S\" prices. Fuji just couldn\'t sell 1000 units like leica and call it a success. They need the economies of scale. Hasselblad is already wedded to Sony, as is Pentax, so Fuji would be the only customer if they went to Tower. In other words, no way it would happen.
Also, Japanese companies tend to buy Japanese sensors.
Potential future customers could include Leica (who already use them), Fuji, Panasonic and possibly even Olympus (rumored to have a FF on the way). Heck, even Nikon is not out of the question, nor Ricoh. These guys will go where the technology is and if some future, groundbreaking sensor is available from Tower and not Sony, you can bet their would be customers.
As to you last point, that\'s already met as Tower is owned 49% by Panasonic and many of the sensor manufacturing sites are already located in Japan. Panasonic\'s strong involvement though is all that would likely matter.
Seems like an anti sensor monopoly coalition is forming. Probably a good thing.
Sep 14, 2016 at 07:47 PM
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