The delay is due to despair and hand wringing over the appearance of moire on some crappy monitors as well as marketers agonizing over the lack of an aperture simulator and the resulting loss of sales to luddites. The sky is most assuredly falling.:-)) Paul On Oct 21, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote:
> 2 - Then Pentax realized there was a huge demand fot the K10D, so they > decided to delay the availability of the K10D IN JAPAN ONLY, just to > feed more cameras worldwide. > > ----- > > Dario, I believe the statement does not specify whether the delay is > Japan only or worldwide. Hence we are all left to speculate. > > Not all of us believe the stated reason for the delay. Ken Takeshita > says reports in Japan are that production started in mid September. > Elsewhere we have seen reports that production will be 13,000 cameras > per month. So if the delay is worldwide (as many of us assume it > is), by > late November Pentax will have over 30,000 camera sitting in > warehouses, > rather than the money from selling those cameras sitting in the > bank. It > makes no sense. Ken (his posts are here) says it is reported in Japan > that the delay is because Pentax is contractually obligated to provide > importers what they ordered, and all at the same time. This sounds > funny > too. Pentax owns the importers, and can do whatever they want to them. > > So we don't know. Perhaps your importer knows more than we do and you > can get us some clarification. We had not previously learned that > retailers would only get 1/2 of their orders initially. > > Joe > > P.S. Check Malta for definitive information. Ulan Bator is now out of > the loop. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
