Care to explain this? These are customer ratings of two cameras, with 1 being the lowest rating, 5 being the highest.
Camera One (average: 4.85 rating):
- 3 responses
- 1
- 1
- 12
- 180
Camera Two (average: 4.02 rating):
- 16 responses
- 9
- 18
- 9
- 87
Camera One is the D700, while Camera Two is the D800. The numbers came from Amazon US customer ratings a couple of days ago, so there obviously are issues right from the start, as Amazon's customer-entered reviews aren't necessarily without bias.
But my point isn't the exact number, it's that this is what happens when a camera company remains silent when they have a critical issue facing even a modest number of users. You guessed it: most of the non 5 ratings for the D800 mention the left sensor focus problem. The interesting thing is this: I've now found three sources of data in addition to my own that all suggest that the number of early D800's with problems, imagined or real, was well above 20%, and probably more like 33%. When that many customers think they have a problem, you as the manufacturer have a problem, simple as that. To not get in front of that and fix that impression tends to have longer-term consequences.
Nikon's continued silence boggles the mind.