i think that a phase will have a very small portion of market in the next future....unless they will change their marketing strategy.
best.
Yes, I think Phase got complacent, they thought their crown was going to last and the MP race in 35mm was going to slow because Canon and Nikon didn't want to jeopardize their lens range. It was true, Canon resisted the push to more MP.
But Nikon became a Sony customer, and provided them with funding to get their Exmor fullframe range running.
Nikon got a lot of customers.
Then Sony turned round and started revving the camera sensors like cellphone modules. It's all-win for them, either they sell sensors, or they sell their own cameras.
Now Phase, Hassy and Pentax are stuck with seeing their lenses obsoleted faster than they can renew them, and Nikon and Canon are feeling unhappy.
Interestingly, the Canon guys saw it all coming, they told me years ago that they were not really frightened of Nikon but that Sony scared them. It would seem there are quite a few non-idiots in this business. Maybe there is decent money still to be made in photography. At least in making cameras
Edmund