The major camera sites and forums are abuzz about a report that Mamiya has quit the camera business.  Several forums are reporting a report out of Japan and quote a translation of a article.

Rough Translation from Bablfish:

 the corporation announced that on the 21st, optical instruments business section and corporation マミヤ of the subsidiary company, it does business transfers to the cosmopolitan digital imaging corporation. マミヤ o tweet it withdraws from the optical instruments business which includes the camera, specializes at electronic equipment business and sport business. Furthermore, also the tripod and the Strobo are included in the optical instruments business which is transferred.

As for transfer contents, optical instruments business and shelf wholesale trade property and fixed assets of マミヤ, industrial property right and lease contract such as right of trade-mark and patent right. Other than those which agree especially it does not take over debt. The employee has made "the schedule where considerable number is employed at the new company" after the retiring. In addition, the new company takes over the after-sales service of the camera.


At the same company the reason of withdrawal, while due to the appearance of the compact digital camera and the digital single-lens reflex camera, the inactivity of the format camera and of medium format digital single-lens reflex camera "Mamiya ZD" it has made stagnant sales. As for balancing of accounts of optical instruments business gross sales 21 hundred million 4,900 ten thousand Yen, the operating profit has reached minus 8 hundred million 3,900 ten thousand Yen in the March 31 day and time point.

Cosmopolitan digital imaging ahead transferring was established on March 15th as a digital technical subsidiary company of the cosmopolitan scientific system corporation which is the SI vendor.

As for transfer price 1 hundred million Yen. September 1st is transferred to aim.

Furthermore マミヤ o tweet the same day, the loss which accompanies this transfer was included, debt surplus line approximately 94 hundred million Yen were anticipated, the specification arrange which requests circulation of money support from the Mitsubishi UFJ trust bank ahead borrowing was stated.

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