I know it was a joke, Guy. I didn't take it negatively, but it raises a for me important issue.
I just wanted to point to the fact that we try, at Sinar, to announce when we feel the product to be finished or nearly so, not in a way to be faster than or to out-announce others.
It can however still happen that the product does not ship in time, but then for technical reasons, not for marketing ones.
That's exactly the point and I feel it not to be serving the interests of photographers, when it is about tools allowing a photographer to work and when involving such financial investments.
My experience is that this has even worsened with the digital age, which is kind of logic, since the product life-cycle is shorter.
The negative side of this being that one is judged, when not playing this game, as a "sleeping" company, not able to follow the path.
Best regards,
Thierry
Thierry that was not the point . It was a joke. I have been watching and listening to announcements for 35 years and every 6 months it is fun to see who announces first. The funniest one is Canon and Nikon on who will out announce each other first. Nikon won this time. Trust me if history serves correctly Canon will next year a week earlier.
