Well, it appears that Konica Minolta (the manufacturers of my Dynax 5D) have decided to pull out of the camera business. This would explain (perhaps) why they were giving away the DImage Master software for the price of a first-class stamp. I’m not all that enamoured with Sony equipment – it always seems to be overpriced, with more attention paid to form than function. Time will tell whether or not they’ll actually keep up their end of the contract and actually make cameras and lenses for the KM mount, or whether they’ll just gut the intellectual property from the transfer and cite ‘profit concerns’ or similar as the reason for discontinuing manufacture and perhaps even support.

Am I fear-mongering? Possibly. I’m a bit worried, because I’ve got a shiny new camera, and within 30 days of owning it, the manufacturer has dropped out of the race. The only possible benefit at this point is glass for the mount type used by the 5D gets dirt cheap.. I can hope, can’t I?