Thanks Mistral75, google translation is sort of impressive isn't it? I remember how horrible these things were as recently as late 2000's!
Originally posted by Mistral75 17:26
① It is now in a suspended state, but we did not decide to quit. It's "on the back burner" and we are watching the situation.
② Development continues. It will take some time but we aim for commercialization.
As it was a "question" while not going on the stage, I could not afford to listen firmly to "answer", it was somewhat ambiguous, but the content was such.
My translation for the last sentense would be
"As I had to chair/MC and ask questions at the same time on stage, I couldn't just focus on listening to his answer, so my memory is somewhat vague, but it was something like that."
Quote: 17:28
The surprising thing is that I heard a reply saying "we will not stop Q". It was "What?" I thought "they will never make it again" (I denied it the other day, but it was Suman). But the probability is like 30% or less. Of course, I want them to resume by all means.
"(I denied it the other day, but it was Suman)" part, suman is an expression of apology mostly for close friends. This is like him saying "sorry folks for saying there's no such thing as future for Q" (referring to his older tweet explained
in this thread before).
30% is his guess, he's not really sure.
Quote: As for "645 digital", I heard a while ago from "a certain line" that "it is moving", so it was not so surprising.
Since I saw a little "light" of "mirrorless camera" with a small sensor size and "This is SLR camera" with large sensor I'm happy.
He literally wrote "This is SLR camera" using Katakana (one of two phonetical character sets in Japan), so taking it literally, 645 series could be a pure embodiment of his ideal of SLR, something that represents what SLR has to offer.
Quote: 18:01
Postscript.
There seems to be someone who receives negative answers about the answer of PENTAX that "they will not stop Q" and a convenient answer on sale, but it's not a politician's answer, so I received it a little more positively I want to. The future will be less than 30%, but there seems to be a "possibility". Even if [the probability] is small, one can have a dream.
"Concerning PENTAX's answer that they won't give up on Q, some seem to be skeptical or see it as just sales tactics, a convenient lie, but hey we're not talking to politicians, I'd like to take it more positively than that. There seems to be the "possibility" (of resurrection of Q) though I'm guessing it's less than 30%. However small that might be we can still dream, isn't that a good thing?"
He is suggesting that he trusts PENTAX (or Iwasaki san specifically) in that what they tell is genuine, that they wouldn't lie just to keep their base happy, unlike politicians. Maybe small things like this are why he manages to keep a good relation with PENTAX.
BTW I watched one of his sessions on youtube, probably this was the first one on Thursday.
He didn't sound angry or anything though he acted pushy and confrontational at times (he's ご意見番 after all). He was trying really hard to get into deeper conversation about K-3II successor or whatever you call it without much success, and it was apparent Iwasaki-san isn't authorized to say anything substantial.
There were some interesting conversations though, e.g. about the body design (Tanaka-san knows it's in some sort of presentable form but they don't want to show anything), humorous but calculated way he pressed Iwasaki-san to say when it will be available or not, about mirrorless, about pixel shift resolution in GR3.
I don't have time to write about these things but maybe that's good as at least I'm not feeding trolls.
He sounded genuinely enthusiastic about the new 11-18mm lens (6:50). "I don't want to sound like a shill", but "REALLY great lens", "has plenty of resolving power", but "it's not about over-stressing sharpness, unlike trendy lenses of today", "nothing to dislike about the rendering", "shoot with it, you'll see what I mean", to him this is "the best PENTAX lens as of now". Iwasaki san said "Thank you very much, you've never said those things before, I'm surprised, I feel as if it was worth the long development time."