Enough with the D800 supply rants

No, I do not imply perfect. Even after release, and after firmware updates and manufacturing tweaks, there is no such thing as a perfect product. However, I've found over my many years as an electrical engineer working as a R&D Director that if you wait and iron out bugs, trickle products and go back to the lab with feedback to tweak and come with revision 1.1b and then wait for feedback, this will be an endless loop costing the company a lot in lost sales.

At some point in the R&D project, you do your due diligence, test your product out in phases, do a limited beta (or whatever you want to call it) release to a select group of people (like the pros Nikon have) and hope they give you enough feedback to iron out most of the issues. The rest you'll have to live with. Trickling products to market because you're not confident enough in your design is a major marketing flaw IMHO, based on my experience. Sure, if your product is very risky, lets say, a new medical product, an electric vehicule, a light field camera or an OLED 60 inch screen, then one may think about limiting distribution. I don't feel the D800 falls into this category. Its just an iteration. A very good one at that but still not so different from current products it requires a limited distribution.

Just my opinion... In the end, I'll end up being one of those who will have waited for the bug free version as I don't even have a pre-order yet...