Release, and chop! After all, you aren't using them much anymore, and we
need to know!
Bill Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] No E-System pro camera until 2010 ;(
> >
>> Why are rumor sites taken as if official announcement from Olympus?
>>
>
> Because in this day and age, you have to prime the pump to get enough
> excitement going to sell the cameras. Canon has actually made a
> tremendous
> mistake lately by not feeding the rumor mill. As a result, their Rebels
> and
> DXX series cameras have not been as good of sellers as they could have
> been
> if they built some pre-demand for them.
>
> Olympus, Leica and Nikon are using the rumor mills to their advantage and
> have been doing a good job of creating the demand for the new product
> before
> it is actually released.
>
> Well-timed leaks and suppositions are not an accident. In the case of one
> particular brand, the leaked specifications, pictures, etc., will emerge
> from some obscure third-world country nobody other than a professor of
> sociology has ever heard of. In fact, so obscure that you have a hard time
> finding an online translator that will convert the text into anything
> other
> than pig latin. But even this is no accident. It is not a coincidence that
> the sentence structure is so hacked up. Like clockwork, this third-world
> revelation will happen 10-14 days before launch. It is completely
> coordinated and planned which country/language the leak will come from.
>
> Now, what is REALLY interesting is that we've actually seen a preview of
> one
> of the new cameras but the leaked info is in isolated chunks and seemingly
> unrelated to each other. I think my partner in crime isn't even aware of
> that one. :) But there is a new leak within the last 24 hours which the
> rumor sites will totally overlook and there is absolutely no way we can
> reveal it on ZX yet. If I say a word, my b*lls will be chopped off and fed
> to the penguins.
>
> AG
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