John Francis wrote:
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.
Indeed, considering that sensor pretty much killed Contax as a brand
(The Sensor in the Contax N Digital was the same one to be used in the
MZ-D).
-Adam
