RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: V.P. of Pentax Canada Forced Mike Svitek to Withdraw All his Posted Contents about the New Pentax DSLR!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

V.P. of Pentax Canada Forced Mike Svitek to Withdraw All his Posted Contents about the New Pentax DSLR!

(Glen Sealy, V.P. of Pentax Canada Imaging.)

According to what Mike Svitek told lastly, Vice President of Pentax Canada, Glen Sealy, phoned him, strongly requesting removval of all his previous posted contents about a secret Pentax DSLR body tested by him, at Google+ and Twitter.

So, now all his contents are removed but then it seems yet confirms that what Mike told are true, maybe! And do note that the Pentax VP did get / does have his phone number as told! :-)

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OGL · 624 weeks ago

What is your evidence? The words in internet costs nothing.
Svitek said it in twitter. Fang just repeated. Do you have audio track of talk?

All this confirmed that Svitek is tired to tell lies and nothing else...

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rob · 624 weeks ago

I believe we are closing in on a big deal announcement........

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Peter Fang · 624 weeks ago

I merely mentioned that it was him that said he got a call from Glen Sealy in a Twitter reply to me. Nobody knows how much of that is true. We just know that he deleted the whole Google+ thread.

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opiparopepino 58p · 624 weeks ago

I may be wrong (in fact, I hope I'm wrong), but I really think this is all only a bunch of lies of Svitek trying to get his 5 minutes of attention on the internet. If he is really trying a cámera that is not yet on production, he would have signed a NDA, so he could not say a thing about it. And also, ¿anyone knew Svitek from before this? He looks like a young photographer who is beggining and have little to none work published, and his galleries are not very overwhelming either. ¿Why Pentax would send him a cámera to test? I think they would chose some Japanese or asian Photographers, or at least more experienced.

Like I said, I hope I'm wrong and the Pentax FF will be released soon, but I cant trust anything about Svitek, so I will stay skeptical.

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jeez · 624 weeks ago

I think, RiceHigh will soon get an e-mail from Glen Sealy with request for deleting this "news" :).

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CypherOz · 624 weeks ago

I say male bovine droppings!! :)

The K-3 won't be FF and won't be announced tomorrow, it maybe announced during April.
FF won't be announced before Oct 2013

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zhivbors · 624 weeks ago

Hi, Did you realize how in past days the world is talking "Pentax" !! It's everywhere! Even my good friends shooting with Nikon D600, D7000 and Canon MarkII and III are talking in past days "Pentax" only. I don't know whether it's true (hope YES) . Will see!

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frank · 624 weeks ago

So...
i think the guy will never get an official sample, let's just think he knows some enigneer of pentax and the engineer gave him an unofficial sample to try cause they are friends or something. so this is a scenario i would consider as possible. now let's check if this could have really happened: i think the development of cameras will be completely done in japan. and so i think the prototypes will not leave japan. there is no reason to ship a prototype to canada as long as if there isn'T any development or testing department, and i dont believe there is something like this. and i dont think that a pentax engineer would pack a borrowed prototype of the lab into a package and send it to a friend in canada...prototypes are VERY expensive, they are controlled very strictly and usaually it is well documented who takes them out of the develompent facilities if they are even allowed to leave. i dont know pentax but i know development.

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frank · 624 weeks ago

so another scenario would be that this is some pentax engineer, who has some internal knowledge but constructs a story to net be catched by his bosses. possible...but i think it would be possible to track his ip and see if it is a japanese one or a canadian one...ok it's possible to fake that too if the guy put enogh effort into.

another thing would be, if this is some guerilla marketing by pentax. spread some talks, see how forums spread the news, what people think and write. spread rumors, create attention. - but if you generate the demand, you gotta put something in! otherwise it will cause more dissapointment of your possible/maybe customers/buyers if oyu spread the rumor of a FF supercamera and then there will be an APS-C entry level DSLR with 256 color conifgurations... *Lol*

Hope for nothing, be positively suprised if it (the dream) comes true, don't be suprised if you have to wait for another 1...2 years.

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Mistral75 · 624 weeks ago

Last (and by me favoured) scenario: the guy is purely and simply a mythomaniac.

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frank · 624 weeks ago

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frank · 624 weeks ago

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davescliches 52p · 624 weeks ago

To me ,the whole thing is a nonsense,Do people really think Pentax are going to give out a preproduction model to an unknown so called photographer with a big mouth! who then blabs left and right on Twitter and facebook. We have been so called privé to predicted camera releases before and right up to the day it's always been a surprise.

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frank · 624 weeks ago

sorry for double posting, it did't appear, and i thought there was some problem with my browser...

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Mike Lambert · 624 weeks ago

I think that its unlikely that this guy is legit. Its been blowing out of proportion because we are all desperate for positive Pentax news, and we all want the rumors to be true. They really need to "pull something out of the bag" while they still have a loyal and caring user base, and before everyone decides to "defect" to Canon, Nikon, Olympus or Fuji.

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Mike Lambert · 624 weeks ago

btw more fuel for the fire here -
http://www.iphoneogram.com/p/413319438467069407_5...

Apparently the K5 III is planned for 2014 (I think a ROFL is in order here).

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Andrés · 624 weeks ago

I guess you are only trying to keep attention to your blog for being clicked and clicked.

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davescliches 52p · 624 weeks ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...! A BIG HOAX! Look at this video, the guy owns up to joking with his mates and says it was put out by somebody, but he wants to know who. END THIS THREAD NOW!!!

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davescliches 52p · 624 weeks ago

Hi again, the video from the link I posted has already been removed!!!! I watched the video, A resumé, Mike Svitek is videoing himself in a car stating, that he was joking and teasing his friend because he didn't want him to buy Canon,so he invented the Pentax K3 senario saying how good it was etc. he was sort of excusing himself while blaming the person who leaked it out on the net. So, A big hoax!