Latest News: F828 project is cancelled

[LanceD]

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

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Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[Sparky_ca]

LOL your gonna scare a lot of STFers

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
Sparky_ca
I have a photographic memory, but I always seem to have the lens cap on.

 

[Darrell Johansen]

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[zazoo1994]

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[zazoo1994]

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
Sparky_ca
I have a photographic memory, but I always seem to have the lens
cap on.

 

[Greg Gebhardt]

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
not too many are scared.

Greg Gebhardt in
Jacksonville, Florida

 

[Aal]

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[LanceD]

pre-production camera (one that used to take the duck and flower shots) hehehe

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
not too many are scared.

Greg Gebhardt in
Jacksonville, Florida

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[evan]

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
Armo_WarrioR

 

[Natty Brito]

Is this for real???? Do you want to give me a heart attack? Not funny if it isn´t real....

Natty Brito (Portugal)

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[srh]

Well, there will be a 717 upgrade kit which contains black color, a 828 sticker, some plastic ducks and a tool (Win/Mac) to add noise to your photos.

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Take care
Sascha http://a.photoblog.de

 

[Daniella68313]

the 300d sales are going so well that some people have problem finding it in the USA...most stores are out of stock.

Beside some minor anoyances that are some limitation imposed by Canon, the 300d produce excellent image quality and performance. It will not be recalled by Canon..they don't even want to make a firmware update to change the features to let us have FEC..at least for now. They don't care..they have lots of sales.

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
Armo_WarrioR

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Daniella
main gallery: http://www.infrareddream.com
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/userphotos?id=26918
http://www.pbase.com/zylen
C7OO FORUM: http://www.c700uz.com

c7OOuz, Dimage-7, Tcon14tele, C210tele, Cokin-173, Grad-ND, Hoya-red-Intensifier, Hoya_R_72.

 

[Cheryl Meisel]

Beside some minor anoyances that are some limitation imposed by
Canon, the 300d produce excellent image quality and performance.
It will not be recalled by Canon..they don't even want to make a
firmware update to change the features to let us have FEC..at least
for now. They don't care..they have lots of sales.

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
Armo_WarrioR

--
Daniella
main gallery: http://www.infrareddream.com
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/userphotos?id=26918
http://www.pbase.com/zylen
C7OO FORUM: http://www.c700uz.com
c7OOuz, Dimage-7, Tcon14tele, C210tele, Cokin-173, Grad-ND,
Hoya-red-Intensifier, Hoya_R_72.

--
Cherylm

 

[Cheryl Meisel]

Natty Brito (Portugal)

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
Cherylm

 

[LanceD]

My project at work that is.

Sorry guy, It's Friday, my project is cancelled, what else I can do?

Have a good weekend.

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[clayworks]

Also on eBay Canon 1Ds for $1900 w/lenes http://www.pbase.com/clayworks

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[Jamie154594]

My entire company got cancelled two weeks ago!

Jamie

 

[KEITH-C]

A writ is in the post .It is too late to withdraw this miss-leading information

 

[LanceD]

I'm not sure I understand your statement here as weather it's serious or not. But if it's serious, I think you definately misunderstood the intend of the post. If you read the entire post, you should know that it means for fun. Lots of thing like "superglue the doors" and such are intended purely for entertainment.

I'm sorry if this is in some way miss-leading you.

A writ is in the post .It is too late to withdraw this miss-leading
information

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto

 

[w77]

I don't see anything in sony.jp website saying that F828 is cancelled. To the contrary, it states that F828 will be launched worldwide in mid Dec this year.

Please prove & justify your statement by indicating an exact web page on the image quality problem & the cancellation of F828.
w77

To improve the image quality of the F828, Sony's engineering chief
estimated another 12 months delay. Can't afford such delay, Sony
executives decided to cancel the F828 project and pull all
engineering resources into the F939 project, which will be sampled
by 3Q04 and in full production status by 1Q05.

Effect immediately, all sample images and F828 associated document
such as specification should be destroyed. To the advertising
agencies hired by Sony earlier to promote the F828, Sony will pay a
compensation for terminating the contract early.

For any future cameras that will be presented at pulic shows, Sony
decided to superglue doors of all memory compartments, MS and CF
alike. This will help prevent unauthorized release of Sony
pre-production samples.

As a damage control measure and to retain its royal customers, Sony
decided to lower the T1 price by 1/3. This will keep people happy
while waiting for the F939.

BTW, no pre-production unit will be sent to DC reviewer as a way to
lower people expectation of the future F939.

For more information, worldwide customers can visit Sony Japan
website: http://www.sony.jp . For non-Japanese readers, Altavista's
babelfish is Sony's recommended translation tool.

--
Lance
http://www.pbase.com/lhphoto