Originally posted by RobA_Oz The video interview was clear, as Chris Mak says, but we probably should be careful in taking his words too literally, as it was also clear to me that he was a hesitant English speaker, and “develop” could refer to a concept, a detail design or a pre-production design review. I hope it’s the latter, but I wouldn’t bet too much on that hope, given the pace at which things seem to be moving within the Pentax division.
Right. What we should be especially careful about is interpreting his words according to our wishes.
As I said to Chris on the other forum, what we're hearing is actually a translation - Mr. Arai's; and he's not a professional translator. The exact wording,
in our interpretation, might not be an accurate reflection of reality.
OTOH we know they were "researching" the camera since at least the beginning of 2017, whatever that means.