Originally posted by monochrome I'm coming to the belief that they knew there was problem a while ago, but hoped to fix it by some certain drop-dead date and stay on-promise. They kept this issue (and apparently everything else) very close to the vest even for Ricoh these last weeks (I've commented several times about the absolute silence even from kenspo and asahi man).
I can think of 3 possible reasons for the delay:
- an unexpected problem - as you said - which needs more time to be solved properly
- changes deemed necessary in order to have a competitive product. Perhaps they figured out the competition will have 'something' well before the next Pentax FF. Perhaps they figured out they have a much better chance by implementing their own 'something', even if the price is a delay.
- there's no problem, there's no project change, it just takes longer than expected. It happens all the time.
Originally posted by monochrome The disappointment around here isn't really Ricoh's fault. They've never said there was actually a FF - in fact they consistently denied there was a FF - until last winter. It's all our stupid rumors, repeatedly dashed, that make this first real setback so vexing.
You nailed it.
With one small detail - it's Pentax (i.e. Pentax Corporation after cancelling the MZ-D, Pentax Imaging Systems as a part of Hoya Corporation, and Pentax as a Ricoh brand until the end of 2012. But it doesn't matter, the message was clear and accurate.