Nikon to buy Canon? [Archive] - Canon Digital Photography Forums

koalawalla

22nd of August 2007 (Wed), 15:27

eslaydog

22nd of August 2007 (Wed), 15:34

http://press.nikonusa.com/gallery/product.php?c=nikon/Digital_SLR/Nikon%20plans%20to%20buy%20Canon%20by%20End%20of%2 0fiscal%20Year/

:rolleyes: Better be a leftover from April Fools. Either that, or Nikon wants to own something that people want. :lol:

That's funny.

Actually, Canons Research & Development budget is greater than the entire operating budget of Nikon.

Won't happen.

cosworth

22nd of August 2007 (Wed), 15:35

Daihatsu to buy Toyota?

Next.

EOS Man

23rd of August 2007 (Thu), 05:37

Hey!!! What happened to the link? Damn....

DaleFrazierPhotography

23rd of August 2007 (Thu), 06:55

Something happened to the link..?

KrysiaG

23rd of August 2007 (Thu), 12:12

The link doesn't work. :confused:

They must have pulled the page.

kensei

1st of September 2007 (Sat), 18:41

That's funny.

Actually, Canons Research & Development budget is greater than the entire operating budget of Nikon.

Won't happen.

do you actually have the numbers for this?

arogop

5th of September 2007 (Wed), 18:33

do you actually have the numbers for this?

42.

kensei

6th of September 2007 (Thu), 12:31

i wasnt asking for the meaning of life -.- lol

ACDCROCKS

10th of September 2007 (Mon), 21:33

That's funny.

Actually, Canons Research & Development budget is greater than the entire operating budget of Nikon.

Won't happen.
Then why does the d300 seem so good? haha

cosworth

10th of September 2007 (Mon), 21:35

Then why does the d300 seem so good? haha

Because the nearest Canon model is $800 CDN cheaper. (40D).

The D300 fits where the used 1D M.kII goes.

ACDCROCKS

10th of September 2007 (Mon), 22:55

Because the nearest Canon model is $800 CDN cheaper. (40D).

The D300 fits where the used 1D M.kII goes.
I see, thanks. Everythign is making sense now, I can't beleive I was thinking Nikon was getting ahead of the game.:rolleyes:

DanteCaspian

10th of September 2007 (Mon), 23:14

Actually, Canons Research & Development budget is greater than the entire operating budget of Nikon.

This this verifiable fact? Just curious. :)

sboerup

5th of January 2008 (Sat), 23:42

Canon's annual revenues is 10 times that of Nikon. Never will happen. Canon does a lot more than just Cameras (photocopiers, large format printers, printers, video cameras, large copying machines, etc).

sjc*2

7th of January 2008 (Mon), 08:42

If you took out Canon's revenues from the sales of laser printer engines then you could make a better comparison.

TTk

7th of January 2008 (Mon), 10:25

I have said this before Canon will have to pull it's socks up one or more MkIII type cockup's could see Nikon at the top, they might have a bigger budget than Nikon but it does show at the moment who uses there budget well. Go and try a Nikon and you will see what i mean..

cosworth

7th of January 2008 (Mon), 10:27

If you took out Canon's revenues from the sales of laser printer engines then you could make a better comparison.

You can't buy something you can't afford. Canon's camera division is far larger than Nikon's. Canon OWNS the P&S world.

I don't see Ford buying Toyota anytime soon.

TTk

7th of January 2008 (Mon), 10:29

Ford would not lower there selfs..

sportysnaps

10th of January 2008 (Thu), 17:10

ha ha good one

danielyamseng

11th of January 2008 (Fri), 06:34

If you say Microsoft would buy Canon at least that'd made a sense a bit:)

cdifoto

11th of January 2008 (Fri), 06:36

You can't buy something you can't afford.

Kmart bought Sears.

Keith R

11th of January 2008 (Fri), 07:47

I have said this before Canon will have to pull it's socks up one or more MkIII type cockup's could see Nikon at the top

Give me a break.

Nikon have "survived" any number of comparable cock-ups - the three I personally suffered from being the D70 exploding battery scare, D70 BGLOD and D200 banding.

Then there were significant D2X AF issues, and the furore about Nikon NEFs having their WB and other settings encrypted as a deliberate strategy to prevent Third Party conversion software from being fully effective.

Oh let's not forget the revelation that D70 NEFs were subject to "lossy" compression, completely removing the point of using RAW...

Glenn NK

13th of January 2008 (Sun), 02:29

Ford would not lower there selfs..

True that - they're low enough now.;)

Bamamike

20th of January 2008 (Sun), 19:03

Maybe the next generation cameras are named "Phoenix" or "Seagull", both based in China and Canon and Nikon and all the others are gone???
Who thought that IBM will end up as a Chinese company some years ago?
Everything can happen.....
Jaguar will be soon an Indian company....

JimShorts

23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 02:43

do you actually have the numbers for this?

Canon spent approximately $2.6 billion on R&D in 2006, while Nikon spent $4.7 million on R&D and had total expenditures of and had $4.4 billion in total operating expenses. Canon's total operating expenses were $11.4 billion.

I think I did those conversions correctly. Those may not be exact numbers, but they should give you an idea.

DanteCaspian

23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 17:22

But income and expenditures don't paint the success or failure of similar juxtaposed enterprises, or do they?:cool:

maxpower2078

23rd of January 2008 (Wed), 18:09

Has anyone heard of a privately held company making 6.1 billion in revenue in 2006 buying a company that had over 3.8 billion in cashflow and 35 billion in revenue for the fiscal year 2006? I don't watch the market that close, but I don't think this happens very often.

I Simonius

10th of February 2008 (Sun), 17:49