Originally posted by Jean Poitiers [...]
"A quote from the German DSLR forum:
Hallo Mit-Forianer,
ich bin kein Geek und kein Troll, aber mein Händler des Vetrauens hat sich gestern abend verplappert.
Ich war mal die K-01 anschauen und bin dann für mich zum Ergebnis gekommen, daß die nichts für mich ist. Dabei bin ich ins Gespräch gekommen und da ist dann folgendes gesagt worden.
Als Fact:
1.) Pentax hat die letzten K5 aus Fernost erhalten
2.) Ab Mai gibt/soll es geben die K5n. Diese hat einen schwenkbaren Monitor (hört, hört)
3.) Für Juli/Somme ist angekündigt die K3.(That is indeed very incorrect, but i would suspect that he wrote something like "Im Juli/Sommer gibt es die K3" and then changed it and forgot to change the position of "die K3" in the sentence) Diese soll als weiterentwickelter Nachfolger der K5 an den Start gehen.
Zu 2 +3 gibt es gibt es wohl schon eine Ankündigung in Papierform (quasi Prospektmaterial).
und nun (großer Tusch)
4.) Am Horizont ist eine Profikamera in Sicht ( soll wohl wirklich K1 heißen), die einen Profistatus haben kann. Es gibt dazu eine Äußerung, daß sie KEINEN APS-C Sensor hat. Ob es denn wirklich Vollformat wird, daß (not being able to differentiate between "dass" and "das" is typically german, additionally the out-of-date "daß" would indicate that the person went to school earlier than the (mid?) nineties) war dann nicht mehr herauszukitzeln (PHOTOKINA , ick hör dir tapsen (that's some north-german dialect used as a kind of stylistic device to show intimacy between the Photokina and the writer)...)
Da der Kollege selbst begeisterter Pentaxianer ist, der aus das Rumoren im Fandom kennt, halte ich seine AUssagen für glaubwürdig."
Allez et salut, J Frog
Hi Jean,
yes, the grammar is indeed not perfect, but it has that kind of errors a native-speaker would make. Other than that, it has a completely "native-sounding" vocabulary.
Ive added the complete german forum post, so the circumstances of this rumor ar a bit clearer.
My translation would be (i think the same as already was at the beginning):
Quote: Hello fellow forum-members,
i am not a geek
[possibly wrong use of "geek" by the wrtiter] and not a troll
[red flag ], but yesterday evening my trusted camera-dealer gave away too much.
I was looking at the K-01
[in the camera shop] with the result, that it isn't for me.
[=i don't like it] In the ensuing conversation i was told the following:
As facts:
1) Pentax
[Germany] has received the last shipment of K5 from far-east
2) Starting in may a new K5n should be available. This one has an articulated screen (expression of surprise)
3) A K3 is announced for july/summer. This is supposed to be a
[weiterentwickelt~further developed] successor (=~evolution) of the K5.
For 2) and 3) there apparently already exists an announcement on paper (kind of an advertisement folder)
[the writer assumes that these exist without having been told so by the salesperson, i think]
and (big surprise!):
4) there is a pro-body on the horizon (which indeed appears to be named K1)
[as in previous some rumors?] which has a pro-positioning
[on the market]. There was a statement, that it has *NO* APS-C sensor. But i couldn't find out
["tease out"], if it indeed was FF. (
[maybe should wait till Photokina?])
Since my mate [the dealer] himself is an ardent pentaxian and knows the
[Rumoren = "the rumble", ~the craving for something new (in this context)] of the pentax-fans, so i think his statements are trustworthy.
I personally would suspect that either this dealer made up some new cameras so the writer waits with jumping ship to some other brand, or the writer himself made these up for attention, but i don't really believe that this kind of information is handed out to (common?) dealerships that early.
Cheers,
Alex