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A couple of years ago they did the rather questionable move of unfranchising their independent repair dealers: to get your gear serviced, it had to be sent to a Nikon factory shop. So instead of perhaps having someone within a hundred miles of where you lived that you could drive up to, you had to ship your kit to the east or west coast. I found that worrisome, and I don't shoot Nikon.
Now either their entire production or just their final assembly is moving to Thailand. The article is very short, a summary of an article appearing in the Japanese newspaper Asahi.
Sony ate their lunch as the number two camera maker, it would seem that they may becoming desperate to improve profitability, or to lower their prices to expand their user base. Moving production to Thailand might help, but they had better make sure that their quality is 100% as good as Japanese production!
When I was a teen, for my second camera I worked my butt off and bought a Rollieflex 35mm DSLR. Rollie had everything going for it: German engineering, the best glass, etc. One problem: they'd moved production for this particular line to Singapore and as it turns out, didn't followup on quality control. It was a complete POS and the only time it worked right was when I took it in to get it serviced.
Now, that was 40 years ago, and camera manufacturing and QC is much improved. But if their manufacturing slips, they could easily go the way of Minolta, Olympus, Konica, etc.
I really don't want to see that happen.
https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/nikon-is-ending-70-years-of-camera-production-in-japan/
Now either their entire production or just their final assembly is moving to Thailand. The article is very short, a summary of an article appearing in the Japanese newspaper Asahi.
Sony ate their lunch as the number two camera maker, it would seem that they may becoming desperate to improve profitability, or to lower their prices to expand their user base. Moving production to Thailand might help, but they had better make sure that their quality is 100% as good as Japanese production!
When I was a teen, for my second camera I worked my butt off and bought a Rollieflex 35mm DSLR. Rollie had everything going for it: German engineering, the best glass, etc. One problem: they'd moved production for this particular line to Singapore and as it turns out, didn't followup on quality control. It was a complete POS and the only time it worked right was when I took it in to get it serviced.
Now, that was 40 years ago, and camera manufacturing and QC is much improved. But if their manufacturing slips, they could easily go the way of Minolta, Olympus, Konica, etc.
I really don't want to see that happen.
https://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/nikon-is-ending-70-years-of-camera-production-in-japan/
