To me it makes perfect sense. Until product is fully out, it makes absolutely no sense to publish any samples. Not once and not twice such disclosure had produced very untoward effects to gear makers.
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13/10/2013 12:47 AM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: >> >> seems weird to me that pentax is telling all those handling the >> pre-production samples of the cameras not to comment on the >> image quality of the cameras at such a late date. Are they expecting >> some miracle firmware to come in an save the day at the last second? >> Could there be a fly in the ointment here? ? ? >> > It's a very competitive business. I suspect Ricoh figures keeping the > competition in the dark is important. There are "official" images on the > Pentax website. It also wouldn't surprise me if they are still tweaking > things like NR levels and the like. > A number of years ago I was handed pre-production samples of the 16-50/2.8 > and 50-135/2.8 and told to go off and have fun, but I wasn't to publish > images from the lenses until after the release date. > > bill > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
