Sony likes to sell their latest R&D innovation to their competitors first.
It makes perfect sense, give your enemies the bullet to shoot you in the head.
I got it figured out… It’s a Japanese thing, since they like to cut themselves and jump off cliffs.
The one thing that doesn’t make any sense to me and it is quite puzzling is…
Why doesn’t Sony sell the sensors cheaper to their competitors???
Thus allowing their competitors to price their cameras at a cheaper price point???
You see, eventually Sony will enter the MF market, but when they do,
they will realize that their competitors has too many cameras with their
sensors on the market already. Therefore Sony has to target the weird
segment in a desperate attempt to penetrate the market, like attempting
to mount a MF sensor into a tiny E mount body with an entire new lens
lineup called MFE.
Of course they arn’t sure if they want to commit to the system since
they are testing the waters so they will call the system something like
SEX-3 to SEX-7.
Then after numerous iterations of failed attempts they will bring out a
decent weird looking tiny camera with a massive MF sensor in it and they
will re-integrate the camera back into their main Alpha line. However
since they ran out of numerical numbers to play with they will start at
the alpha-0.77.
Because they were forced to rush this prototype out to market because
they were losing too much grounds to their competitors, they couldn’t
perfect certain tech for the alpha-0.77 such as the Electronic first
curtain or the 5-axis internal body stabilization. So Months after the
release, Sony will announce a new successor to the camera with the fixes
in place, making all their stupid/loyal customers wish they had waited.
Meanwhile, since Sony is pushing out so many cameras, their
programmers are too busy working on the latest and greatest firmwares,
forgetting about the previous generation cameras that was released
months ago. Thus pissing off the loyal/stupid customers who has to put
up with certain aspects of faults that could be corrected through a
firmware upgrade.
Sony then maintains their pro customers, but due to their disgraceful
attitude, hardly any emerging semi-pros wouldn’t want to touch the Sony
system.
If Sony were to open their eyes and take a look at the semi-pro
market, they would realize that a lot of them are buying their cameras,
but are using them casually and not integrating them into their primary
workflow.
Oh man...words cannot express what happened to me after eating these.
The Gummi Bear "Cleanse". If you are someone that can tolerate the sugar
substitute, enjoy. If you are like the dozens of people that tried my
order, RUN!
First of all, for taste I would rate these a 5. So
good. Soft, true-to-taste fruit flavors like the sugar variety...I was a
happy camper.
BUT (or should I say BUTT), not long after eating
about 20 of these all hell broke loose. I had a gastrointestinal
experience like nothing I've ever imagined. Cramps, sweating, bloating
beyond my worst nightmare. I've had food poisoning from some bad
shellfish and that was almost like a skip in the park compared to what
was going on inside me.
Then came the, uh, flatulence. Heavens
to Murgatroyd, the sounds, like trumpets calling the demons back to
Hell...the stench, like 1,000 rotten corpses vomited. I couldn't stand
to stay in one room for fear of succumbing to my own odors.
But
wait; there's more. What came out of me felt like someone tried to
funnel Niagara Falls through a coffee straw. I swear my sphincters were
screaming. It felt like my delicate starfish was a gaping maw
projectile vomiting a torrential flood of toxic waste. 100% liquid.
Flammable liquid. NAPALM. It was actually a bit humorous (for a
nanosecond)as it was just beyond anything I could imagine possible.
AND IT WENT ON FOR HOURS.
I
felt violated when it was over, which I think might have been sometime
in the early morning of the next day. There was stuff coming out of me
that I ate at my wedding in 2005.
I had FIVE POUNDS of these
innocent-looking delicious-tasting HELLBEARS so I told a friend about
what happened to me, thinking it HAD to be some type of sensitivity I
had to the sugar substitute, and in spite of my warnings and graphic
descriptions, she decided to take her chances and take them off my
hands.
Silly woman. All of the same for her, and a phone call
from her while on the toilet (because you kinda end up living in the
bathroom for a spell) telling me she really wished she would have
listened. I think she was crying.
Her sister was skeptical and
suspected that we were exaggerating. She took them to work, since there
was still 99% of a 5 pound bag left. She works for a construction
company, where there are builders, roofers, house painters, landscapers,
etc. Lots of people who generally have limited access to toilets on a
given day. I can't imagine where all of those poor men (and women)
pooped that day. I keep envisioning men on roofs, crossing their legs
and trying to decide if they can make it down the ladder, or if they
should just jump.
If you order these, best of luck to you. And please, don't post a video review during the aftershocks.
PS:
When I ordered these, the warnings and disclaimers and legalese were
NOT posted. I'm not a moron. Also, not sure why so many people assume
I'm a man. I am a woman. We poop too. Of course, our poop sparkles
and smells like a walk in a meadow of wildflowers. Thanks for all the
great comments. I've been enjoying reading them and so glad that the
horror show I experienced from snacking on these has at least made some
people smile.
By Christine E. Torok@Amazon