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Originally Posted by robz
... ''technical issues'' eh?........................hmmmmmmm mmm..........that concerns me a little.
I'm no mount manufacturer, but a company that can build an EQ6PRO and lots of other great gear ''scraps'' a new mount : totally...........  ....... ...and then starts on an entirely new version??? ...........  ... |
Could have happened Rob - remember even NASA screwed up on the original Hubble scope with the mirrors issue and then there was that other one when the "wrong" unit of measure was used and caused the probe to go faaaaar faaaaaaar awaaaaaay from its intended target.
I'd rather take it that at least I was told the reason which was forthright instead of a bunch of lame excuses. Methinks the dummy they exhibited @ Photokina last year was just that - a dummy rather than a prototype (don't remember if anyone at that time mentioned that they had seen it working when it was exhibited) - and Photokina being what it is they had to show something and tripped themselves up when they started the build and discovered "hey, can't fix this & this & that, bugger!"
Otherwise we'll have to go along with the assumption of the "feng-shui-ness" (that another previous poster posted) of the number 8 to the Chinese
HTH
Cheers
Bill
Disclaimer: I take no responsibility if the EQ8 gets launched by end Feb 2011 - I am just passing on what I got off from the phone conversation I had and even then I'm unsure if I did NOT speak to the cleaning lady rather than someone in the higher echelons of Synta!