Quote Originally Posted by jrw View Post
Another question to ask is whether rebuilding activities after tsunami has also put infrastructure costs under a different budget heading.
Canon's big lens plant was down for a while. They lost some lenses that were in transit as well. From what I read Canon's R&D department was at work and experienced no damage or delay. However Nikon was hit harder, I think they were down for a while. I thought this time frame would have been a good time for Canon to get ahead. Maybe they have a heart and slowed down to let Nikon keep up.