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The only ridiculous thing I see, with a tendency to be pathetic, is your behavior of defending Ricoh/Pentax for everything they could have done but didn't. And producing not enough units to fulfill the demand says just something about production capacities, not superiority. This happened to all producers and I wonder how much influence the earthquake has to this. Not getting enough Sony sensors must be hard for every producer depending on those. So, not be able to make enough bodies can also indicate a shortage in supply of essential parts...

 

Speaking of tendencies: Putting other words than I or somebody else said into posts is your speciality and you stick with that. I know it's pointless to tell you, fanboys have to be ignorant against any trace of critic, that's normal for them. It's kind of amusing how reliable your defense automatism works.

 

Oh, right. I should've thought of the Kumamoto earthquates.

Except I did. And while they likely had an influence on the production after they happened, they couldn't affect the initial batches. There has to be a delay between manufacturing components, shipping to assembly factories, making the products, packaging and shipping them, and reaching the retailers - so the effect could only start to be seen quite a bit after 16th April.

But even the first batches were utterly insufficient, to a scale I would call unprecedented.

 

L.E. On a funny - or not - side, Ricoh Imaging published their note about "some impact on the future production of our lens-interchangeable digital SLR cameras, interchangeable lenses and digital compact cameras" on May 27th.

 

Speaking of tendencies: I've seen too often how people with an agenda of brand bashing would call others "fanboys" and such, "supporting" criticism by personal attacks.

And the best clue of a "fanboy" is that he would attack other brands and their users, to "diminish" them compared to his own. Just sayin'.