Originally posted by rawr So people chat about why Ricoh showcase it, but don't ship it yet.
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It's not finished. We've only seen prototypes under glass, while in the videos weeks ago the product manager was alarmed when the journalist turned it on, he only wanted the viewfinder to be subject to scrutiny.
In fact, people are only chatting because of Kimio Tanaka's September "prediction", Ricoh have *never* given a date, a price, or specs, nothing in stone.
I have seen on Facebook and YouTube disappointed/angry people who asserted September was the release date, yet could not answer me when I asked them, 'Who told you that?'.
As Monochrome has said, 'Pentax will release the camera when it is ready, and not a day sooner.'.
I want as few problems fixed up in hardware recalls or firmware upgrades as possible. I'd like it to ship after as much testing as possible. It's likely to have new focus, image processing and video making engines, not another K-3 dressed up.
Reviewers will be ready with sledgehammers, they will know that their careers and kickbacks won't suffer the way they would writing negative things about Canon or Sony, so Ricoh might as well give them as small an attack surface as possible.
And it begins here.
This is the number one site appearing for me in Google for searches on Pentax products, news and discussion - we need to be accurate in the information we put in these threads, for the sake of other photographers and would-be photographers.