Panasonic may sell its Sanyo digital camera business.
Reuters reports that “Panasonic may sell its Sanyo digital camera business to Japanese private equity fund Advantage Partners by the end of March”
What I didn’t know til today is that “Advantage Partners” already makes cameras for other companies including Olympus. This should not have any influence on the Micro Four Thirds strategy. What Panasonic is selling is the unprofitable compact camera and video camera business acquired two years ago from Sanyo. As Reuters writes: “Sales of compact digital cameras are under pressure from increasingly powerful smartphones.“
jocky scot
6 months ago |Any news on the firmware update. I have stayed awake but no sign.
firefly
6 months ago |May as well go to sleep! It is only Thursday in the US atm so it depends on which time zone the rumour is from
slugmug
6 months ago |I never even knew Sanyo sold camera’s…
They wont be missed by me
Johnny
6 months ago |“Sales of compact digital cameras are under pressure from increasingly powerful smartphones.“
Right, Nokia 808 is great for point and shoot. Lumia 920 has a fantastic optical image stabilisation. Next year i guess, the two techniques will be combined in one phone. My E-P3 will be still in heavy use, but my Lumix compact camera?
Jan Honka
6 months ago |sorry but your info is wrong… its not only compacts.. its all still cameras.
only dedicated video cameras will be produced by panasonic in the future.
i work for panasonic germany in frankfurt.
admin
6 months ago |Sanyo has nothing else than compact cameras and video cameras! There is no system camera at all
Anonymous
6 months ago |Just a small correction: it is Sanyo which makes digital cameras for other companies, not Advantage Partners.
jocky scot
6 months ago |Sanyo make cameras for Olympus.
David Peterson
6 months ago |“This should not have any influence on the Micro Four Thirds strategy”
PHEW!!!
Hope they keep up the great work with the GH1/GH2/GH3.
DIY
6 months ago |Sanyo sold the most wonderful “hybrid” video cameras, well advanced on most all still cameras in video features. The last credible bleeding edge model still out does most still cameras with 28mb/s fullhd p60 years ago. What did happen was that Panasonic acquired the real competition to their massively priced fullhd p60 camcorder and these bleeding edge camera models dried up.
The menu feature list in these cameras is rich, and the performance per dollar was outstanding. Back during the release of the first 720p hybrid, the HD1, I, and a few others, were instrumental in lobbying for better, and specific, features and performance in the newer Sanyo and latter hybrids. The industry was barrelling down the road of blown out low dynamic range in balanced over saturated color with very very large depth of field on low block data rates and resolutions, hybrids had been the worse. At the release of their fullhd p60 HD2000 28mb/s h264 pocket camera some years back, I think it was the only consumer camera of that spec at any price, let alone pocket ones. If you look at cheap name brand camcorders now, you will find some that are Fullhd p50/60. If they were still independent, we may well have had a well prided pocket ultrahd 4k camera by now. Shame.
DIY
6 months ago |My auto spell corrector at it again, should have been:
..blown out low dynamic range unbalanced over saturated color..in low blocky data rates and resolutions, hybrids had been the worse..Shame.