Originally posted by NickLarsson Thank you for your translation!
But this
doesn't sound very promising to me. Is it a japanese way of saying "no FF before 2015" ?
Also "they had not abandon the project" means that they had thought about it at some point, and they may think about it in the future if they are facing too much problems.
So the Pentax FF is definitely not a given.
I forgot to provide a bit of context here, There was another phrase before this paragraph, original being
宾得近来的新品重心其实在小型无反相机Q7上,不过貌似在中国大家的关注点更多还是在宾得做不做全画幅的问题上。川内先生表示,这一路上已经向其他媒体解释无数遍了,但我还是很没节操的又问了一遍,“现在宾得的全画幅怎么样了?”。
Translate as
Recent development focus of PENTAX is currently on mirrorless Q7, but it seems in China most people are focus more on the question of whether or not PENTAX will be producing FF DSLR. Mr Kawauchi replied he's been through this subject with countless media outlet along the way(media tour I assume), I still asked again regardless: "How is the development on PENTAX FF?"
Followed by
他解释道,目前是有很多问题,但技术人员一直在努力,并没有放弃这个计划。
A strictly word by word translation will be
He(Mr Kawauchi) explained, there are a lot of problems at the moment, but technicians are constantly working on them, they have not abandon this project.
The rest of the paragraph I will include below because I think it will provide context to to the statement above:
So we asked Mr Kawauchi about other brand had swithed to higher MP CMOS, what is PENTAX's reaction(Even Canon had replaced the acient CMOS in the new 70D). Mr Kawauchi said, camera is a complete system, upgrade is not simply raising MP count or change to a new CMOS, we must be responsible for the product, it's not hard getting a high MP CMOS(in the camera), but you have to develop more advanced related technology like image processing engine etc to match the CMOS , or else high ISO and other performances will suffer, they will not follow the herd blindly.
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I think I picked up 2 points in Mr Kawauchi's response regarding FF,
1. it is definitely
'in development', since he mentioned
'there are a lot of problems at the moment' when asked about the state of PENTAX FF, the remaining statement at the end of the sentence is to assure the interviewer the project is still a go. Do you expect development of a top of the line digital FF will be smooth sailing? Of course there will be problems along the way, he assure us they are working on it that's all. As of stage of development and release date, it's anybody's guess, Mr Kawauchi is keeping it very close to his chest.
2. from the following statement stating you have to match new CMOS sensors with adequate supporting technology like new image processing engine( I assume buffer, SR system, etc as well), and they must be responsible for their product, I gather it means they will not put out a half baked product, no matter how much people on internet forums keep wailing about ' FF now or I will jump ship', you have to remember Pentax K-5 and Nikon D7000 uses practically the same CMOS but PENTAX engineers squeezed a little bit more performance out of it with their supporting hardware, I am purely guessing here, but I think Prime II engine was deemed not up to the task of handling new generation of sensors so PENTAX is working on a replacement. I for one am really looking forward to a PENTAX K-mount digital FF, but I am not one of those people demanding PENTAX releasing it yesterday.