On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:27:03PM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Studdert" > Subject: Re: Re: Some more new camera speculation > > > > >>I recall that Pentax was pretty blunt about the FF camera not being > >>marketable due to sensor issues. > > > >So you are telling me that they didn't know this or it wasn't an issue > >when it > >was shown to the market? > > Wild guess, I suspect that it was an issue when they showed the camera, but > they hoped it was one that they could resolve. When they couldn't resolve > it, they benched the camera.
That certainly matches the publicly-available information about that sensor at the time Pentax were talking about the "MZ-D" (or whatever). They weren't the only company who believed that the sensor problems could be fixed, after all.
