Abrak

Still it should be noted that Olympus's mirrorless sales during the quarter, despite being up 25% yoy, only amounted to 7bn yen. And during the 4q Olympus's imaging division made losses of 14.3bn...

http://www.olympus-global.com/en/ir/data/brief/2013/

I do think that there is at least a degree of truth to your 'channel stuffing' theory. Afterall CIPA records  show 'shipments' and not 'sales'. Also as CIPA has only stripped out mirrorless from...

Camera holders are always pretty snobby about cameras. I mean which camera manufacturer in the world sells the most cameras? The answer (I am 90% certain) is Samsung. In 1Q while...

I have absolutely no idea what 'mirrorless composition ratio' is but I suspect that it is Mirrorless as a % of the ILC (DSLR + mirrorless) market. Based on the Cipa data mirrorless sold 743k of...

Well absolutely.... To put Olympus's imaging division losses in perspective they lost US$250m last year which means that it will take them not much over 2 years to burn through the US$500m equity...

You think Olympus are 'making some tough proactive decisions'? Like forecasting 33% growth in a market that is down nearly 20% year to date. If Olympus was being proactive it would get out of...

Yes... funny... that is a good find. It shows the actual CIPA figures for 2012 so the slide must have been taken from at least February of this year. It shows that Panasonic as well as Olympus are...

Actually I think you raise an interesting point. We see on DPreview and various blogs all sorts of numbers for camera sales - amazon.com sales figures extrapolated for the whole industry or...

Well according to CIPA for the first 3 months of 2013, global mirrorless shipments were down 18.5% YOY in unit terms and 17.9% in value terms (yen). So the depreciating yen helps a bit but a 32%...

The source is .... http://www.olympus-global.com/en/common/pdf/brief145PBe_5.pdf Slide 35. According to Cipa, mirrorless 1Q shipments worldwide were 20bn. So that might place Oly's share as high as...

The problem that Oly faces is that 2012 wasnt actually 'that bad' a year for digital camera sales. Compacts did decline 22% in units but ILCs rose 28% and total units were down 15%. In value terms...

Dont be ridiculous. How could their mirrorless division be profitable. In 4Q the mirrorless division made sales of 7bn yen and the imaging division lost 14.3bn yen. For the mirrorless to have made...

From what I gather even if you load 'RAW' into an ipad, the IOS Raw used by Snapseed only recognizes RAW files and does not actually process them. When you import a RAW file, you effectively end up...

Olympus might have been profitable overall last quarter but the imaging division made a 'record loss'. In fact it lost more in 4Q than in the previous 3Qs combined. On sales of 19.9bn yen, the...

Yes I agree with you entirely... It has also shaken my belief in God and the afterlife. Afterall how could He let this happen? It has shaken my belief in capitalism, the free market and with that...

Well this is a bit strange. I suspect that this pic was generated using the 'Photo Ninja plugin for PS' that makes 'PN the default raw converter'. My problem was that if I originally brought a...

Seems to be an idea rather than a petition. I cant find anywhere to sign.

Personally I think that those who want the 'touch' experience on the desktop are better off getting a Logitech touchpad as opposed to a touch screen.

I actually have VSCO 1, 2, and 3. Really are they worth the price? Compared to LR4 at US$99? Obviously not.  I have trialed DXO film (was somewhat disappointed too) and have 'film' presets with...