Originally posted by Kunzite What does that have to do with your obligation to prove your own claim, i.e. that Pentax were basically promising FF "every damn year"?
OTOH, I never said there is something like an official announcement (silly rumors and jokes can be ignored, and I will); but only recently Pentax (re)started talking about FF.
And such kind of talks, interviews with Pentax officials, are not rumors (even if people can make rumors out of them, out of anything actually).
I actually never said that Pentax promised FF every year. I specifically said that they DIDN'T promise FF, just fueled rumors. Key difference. And the self evident fact is that if Pentax didn't want rumors out there before now from it's proxies or employees they've had the simple expedient of officially saying
a) 'Nope, sticking with APS-C until further notice. We'll let you know. Thanks.'
or
b) 'Aw yeah, FF all day evee day buoyeee! Peep dis prototype.'
Sorry, it amuses me to imagine the head of Pentax speaking in a Flava Flav voice.
So we'll do this dance. Again. Months of threads, parsing and re-parsing precious little actual data, a handful of purchasers hold off on making a move, waiting to see. Which is the point. It's a delaying tactic. Oh, eventually, they'll release something, because they won't have an option, and all of the faithful will say "You see? We told you so!" But right now, today, I'd bet a pretty hefty amount of money that nothing approaching a prototype product exists, nor will it exist, for a significant period of time.
Gentleman's wager on seeing any official proof of a Pentax FF body in the 2013 calender year? Loser puts '[Winner's handle] is always right.' in their signature for a year.