----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Tainter" Subject: Re: Pentax Interview at PMA 2007
> > My wallet is not happy with this announcement of non-trivial, yearly > updates. Now you know how it feels to have bought into Canon. Of course, you don't have to buy a new camera every year, just because they make a new one that often. > > The announcement says 10 lenses this year. But the lens map shows only > five being released this year. The other five lenses are on the map, but > without release dates. I think we might see the DA 35 macro this year, > since there is a mockup of the lens. The first two DA* zooms will be > released within a few days. > > Pentax acknowledges the product supply problem. How can that be resolved > with such an aggressive schedule of new product launches? Samsung production facilities? > > Pentax's R&D staff are depressed. This is not good news. The interview > says it is because of the production shortages. But I would not imagine > that this would bother engineers that much. Production shortages show > that their product is appreciated. How could this depress them? I > suspect it could be because Pentax released the K10D with glitches. It > was so close to being perfect, yet many posts are about its problems. > Just my speculation. At some point, a product has to be released tot he market. If the engineers couldn't meet the release deadline, even one which gets pushed back continuously (it's a habit of theirs, from what I have seen), then they have a problem to resolve at the engineering level. There wasn't enough wrong with the K10 to have warranted another release delay. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
