Gentlemen, P�l spells his name as I started out this sentence, with the tiny diacritical "o" mark over the 'a.' Why does everyone spell it Paal? But then, I don't know how to correctly pronounce Paal any more than I do P�l!
Just curious...trying to learn something else new today! keith whaley Robert Soames Wetmore wrote: > > This is of course totally inaccurate. Paal has not predicted .001% > correctly - he has predicted something like 25-50% correctly. And where he > is "incorrect" it is usually because after he has heard the news, Pentax > changes direction. He has been correct about various lens releases, about > the MZ-S and the existence of the MZ-D, and about several other things. > That means there has to be something like 500,000 incorrect predictions he > has made. > > Paal is a great source who clearly has good inside connections. Just > because half of what is on the drawing boards doesn't make it to production > doesn't mean he's making stuff up or that the idea was never on the table. > And even if you do want to blame him for all of that, at least be a little > more realistic about the percentages. > > Paal is a great resource to the list. Who else has contributed so much (or > any) pre-release news from this cagey company called Pentax??? > > But I'm sure you will be deeply sorry and apologize if either or both of > these news items becomes an official release. > > Rob > > >Hi, > > > >well, with all due respect to Paal, his predictions are rather like > >horoscope. There's an awful lot of them, usually couched in vague and > >ambiguous terms, and 99.999% of the time they're wrong. People only > >remember when they're right because it happens so rarely and because, > >like that character in the 'X Files', they want to believe. > > > >If you fire enough buckshot one piece might hit a duck from time to > >time, but that doesn't make you a marksman. > > > >--- > > > >Bob
