Originally posted by Larrymc Sorry for the confusion.
The photo you posted from Tanaka san's blog shows the tape rather sloppily reapplied where as the Pentax release photos show carefully applied tape. That tells me that the tape has been removed by someone who was curios about the name and then it was re-applied after looking at the name. The culprit who removed the tape could have been Tanaka san.
As for the other paragraph it was regarding Karen's post that the release date would be much later than most expect. to paraphrase, you said the camera was pretty much complete but probably needed the firmware tweaked to complete the system.
I hope this clears up your confusion.
Thank you for your detailed explanation.
Re tape and 'variations' from picture to picture, please consider that at least three working samples are touring the various events, possibly more. Each evening they are taken out of their glass case and put in a safe place, each morning they are put back in it. And they travel from one event site to another, some of them overseas.
Concerning the release date, I see nothing that invalidates the current consensus: formal announcement (with complete list of specifications) sometimes before CP+ and availability around April - May, like the K-1. That would mean a 2+ year development time from green light to announcement, which is pretty standard.