mhood wrote:Pete Proniewicz-Brooks wrote:Who's to say what we consider significant is what BMD do? Your making the assumption that they have passed the point they do. Listening to the cries of European people here few of them would consider the shipping so far a significant portion.
Yes, you Europeans have been particularly well fried and you have my deepest sympathies. It is however, true that BMCC EFs are available on the shelves of many resellers now and most of the US preorders have been filled. The MFT is obviously being delayed. The reason(s) it is being delayed would seem to be "news" to me...but I don't have a copy of the BMD Semantic Dictionary at my disposal, so as you said: "Who's to say?"
My guesses for the 3 most likely reasons for the apparent slow shipments of BMCC-EF cameras world-wide, and no "news" about or shipments of the BMCC-MFT, are:
A.) Blackmagic Design is restrained by access to capital (e.g.: they're low on cash/credit);
B.) BMD's manufacture of BMCC-EF & BMCC-MFT is restrained by the availability of sensors from their supplier;
C.) A combination of "B" above and: The BMCC-MFT will actually ship with an
active MFT lens mount.
I tend to doubt reason "A"
is the reason, but who knows, BMD's financials are a black box (no pun intended). But, if it were true, it would easily explain the apparent slow progress of shipping cameras. Unknowable, at least for now.
I think reason "B" above is the most likely reason because it's the simplest. It's also the reason BMD has stated the most often, and it's also the most common cause of slow shipments of similar devices from any manufacturer. It's possible that sensor production was going relatively well a few months ago (when we last heard from Mr. Petty), but has now hit a new snag, one which BMD hasn't told us about (yet). But we don't have any way to confirm it, so again: Unknowable.
Reason "C" seems less likely than reason "B", but very much a real possibility. BMD doesn't usually pre-announce "new" products. Their pre-announcing the BMCC-MFT was kind of an aberration, and in hindsight was premature, and ultimately a "mistake"
if they afterwards decided to release the cam with an active MFT mount instead. So, reason "C" is a double-whammy: They can't make many BMCC cameras because of scarce availability of good sensors, and won't say anything about an active MFT version BMCC because they usually don't pre-announce "new" products. But again, unknowable.
There may be other reasons why we're seeing this scenario drag out, but my guess is the above are the 3 most likely reasons, with "A" being the least likely by far, and reason "B" being the most likely. But I could be wrong; these are just my guesses.
Cheers.