Pollenstudio wrote:Costa wrote:Just rang both CVP and Jigsaw24. CVP have been told NOTHING by BMD and Jigsaw24 say BMD have stated end of the year... Not sure if the Jigsaw24 end of the year date was for anyone pre-ordering from now, but I guess she would have mentioned that on the phone.
Peter - that Croc sure must be looking tasty.....!
Good morning ladies & germs! (Old joke, sorry.)
Actually, Marc's Crocs are still a distance-enough concern that I can't taste, let alone
smell them, yet.
Meanwhile, nothing much has changed.
Given that the only people who know what's going on with BMCC manufacturing & shipping are under NDA (non-disclosure) contracts, I don't put much credence in what someone at Jigsaw24 says, or anyone else. As always, concerning BMCC manufacturing & shipping news, the most accurate source ("usually") is BMD employees their beta testers. Everything else is conjecture, rumor, speculation, and yes, whining.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Am I happy about the situation? No. Have I expressed my dissatisfaction about it to BMD? Yes. Will that change the situation much? Maybe a tiny amount, but I have my doubts.
However, criticism and complaining have absolutely no effect on causing tested-good camera sensor assemblies (or any other hardware or software) materializing out of thin air. For those sorts of things, all we end user customers can do is chose to wait, or not.
(For the litigious-minded and "internet-vendetta-minded" in the crowd: Go nuts. It's your heart attack.)
A few other things:
To poster "emotiondesigner": You know the scene in the movie "The Graduate" where someone at the party offers advice to our hero about what he should do with his future? ("Plastics.") Well, my advice to you is, "Paragraphs."
Concerning whether the BMCC is "shipping" or not:
The BMD website has said "Limited shipping" for the BMCC-EF for weeks now. That's not new news. Also, BMD allegedly started officially shipping BMCC-EF cams several weeks ago, but the quantities were apparently so small you could probably count them on your fingers & toes (plus or minus a few fingers/toes). But as far as BMD is concerned,
shipping officially started ... and then allegedly was halted soon thereafter, when they discovered the sensor glass issue.
BMD probably did stop shipping cameras well before the time Grant Petty posted his letter. If (if) BMD has received tested-good sensor assemblies since then, my guess (and it's only a guess) is they've used those (likely very small quantities) to manufacture cameras, tested the heck out of them at BMD, and then shipped them to a few more lucky folks, especially beta testers & "name" DPs, but also possibly to a few vendor/retailers as demo units, and possibly even to a very few end user customers.
As more tested-good sensor assemblies continue to arrive at BMD (if in fact any are), more cameras will be assembled, tested and shipped. As that cycle continues and repeats, the quantities & frequency are likely to increase -- that's the normal "ramping up" process.
However, the way these things go, BMD could announce
anything today or tomorrow, or not. Myself, I hope for the best, but plan for the worst. I stopped organizing my life around the vagueness of camera manufacturer announcements years ago, well-before BMD announced they wanted to make cameras.
There's nothing about what's happened concerning the BMCC's manufacturing woes that surprises me. BMD set themselves up for a huge bag of hurt by "going there", and then compounded it by announcing a definite timeline. This is how we (all) learn.
Even with all that, I don't see any contradiction about my being optimistic about BMD's and the BMCC's future. The early BMCCs have already proven themselves to be awesome cameras, and BMD has a track record of notable accomplishment. As screwed-up as the present situation is, those two things are indisputable facts to me.
Despite what's happened, I very much look forward to receiving my BMCC-EF ASAP.
Cheers.
P.S.: Oh, and my Graduate-style word of advice to myself would be, "Brevity."