Way to go, Joe. You nailed them.
On Feb 12, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote:
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P.S. Here's what I just posted on Dpreview:
Understanding Pentax management is a little like understanding the
North Korean leadership. It is smoke, mirrors, and misdirection --
when they bother to announce anything at all.
Here's what I suspect is going on:
1. The last of these lenses were kept in Japan for the home market.
They were still listed as available, but in fact were not outside of
Japan (except for stock on hand). Pentax USA, and other local
distributors, were told some time ago that these lenses were not
available.
2. Either the stock in Japan has now sold down, or Pentax is signaling
to the home market to get the last of these lenses while they can.
3. The positive announcement a few days ago of new lenses forthcoming
was timed so that this negative announcement would not appear by
itself -- thereby precipitating more predictions of the imminent
demise of Pentax.
Joe