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English sminglish – it’s an international site with people from a lot of countries, so deal with it, eh? (That’s my Canadian English contribution).

Do agree with you, though, about the rumor grading system being complete nonsense. It’s not that the admin shouldn’t give his own gut feeling about how credible a rumor is or isn’t, but the idea that that can be transformed meaningfully into what is objective measures is laughable and misleading.

Look at all the SPECIFIC FT5 rumors that get something EXACTLY correct – they’re usually 1-3 days ahead of something being announced and/or shipping. Working in a retail shop, we’ve often gotten advanced advertising or display samples, if not an actual shipment, of the product by the time admin here gets these “rumors.” Review sites will have received their prototypes or early release models to preview/review by then.

Really, what the admin are really publishing here they’re not rumors, they’re leaks. Panasonic, Oly, Sony, whoever actually WANT this information leaked a few days before a release or announcement to up the buzz. Anything that’s a real genuine “rumor,” about future technology in a specific implementation (rather than just trolling out tired old patents that are in the public domain anyway) you’re not really getting.

If you wanna know about things a couple days in advance and feel cool, like we used to be the only ones who worked in photo stores, this site is great. If you actually want to know real information about future developments way down the line, go get a degree in optical or electrical engineering and learn Japanese and go to work for one of these companies, but you will sign major major non-disclosures and if you talk to people like 43rumors and the info gets traced back to you you’ll be out of a really good job.

How’s your Spanish Frank?

I think you meant “it is also quite annoying”, or even, “Also, it is quite annoying” as opposed to “it ALSO is quite annoying”. Perhaps you never learned English well enough to know in what order the words are commonly written. Which is sad given that English is your first language.

It’s always a mistake to cast the first stone Frank. Always a mistake.

+1 for the -1 for Frank. Special aside to Frank or any other detractors…… if you don’t like the job that the admin does here, don’t let the door hit yer ass on the way out. Was that English clear enough for you?
D-bag.

+1
signed,
a native English speaker who doesn’t care about spelling and grammar and syntax errors at camera rumor sites

p.s. – keep up the great work Admin