[Kiran.dks]

@Caleb,

Sorry for your ignorance mate...if you take the trouble of reading magazines like Better Photography, Smart Photography, Asian Photography etc you will learn a thing or two about cameras and what is happening around the world...by the way I have read this in Asian Phottography in the month of August 2006...

Well well well...Nice excuse for doing loads of googling and homework dude!
Thanks for suggesting bunch of magazines...may be sometime in future I may chip in some time to go through all those.

Let me come to the point..
It took me some googling to find out the news...
Have a look at these quotes....

Much of the confusion seems to be coming from questions about whose standards are not being met, with Sony China factory officials releasing a statement that standards files submitted to the Zhejiang Administration of Industry and Commerce were "not in conformity with the actual performance of Sony products" according to a China View story. According to an Interfax China story published days later, Kang Jian, a Sony China PR official, agreed with the inspection results, "[B]But part of the reason for the failure to meet standards was that we submitted the wrong enterprise standards for use in the inspections."

Now why did Sony submit the review standard?

.....because China does not yet have national standards for digital camera products, the Zhejiang Administration for Industry and Commerce carried out its inspections using standards provided by Sony!!!

That doesn't end there...check out..

We did not see, nor have we read a transcript from that apology, so at this point it remains unclear whether this is an actual failing in the quality of the Sony cameras made in China for the Chinese market, or if it's just a documentation error on the part of the Sony factory that raised the standards to unreachable levels.

Zhejiang province's testing included 34 models from various companies. A total of 13 failed, two of them allegedly from Pentax, plus the six from Sony. The Pentax models have not been named, nor have any other cameras that were tested, failed or not. An AsiaNews.it story says that Canon and Matsushita (Panasonic) were supposed to be among the products tested. Officials from neither company have been notified how their products fared, however. (source: AsiaNews.it)

These things happens in this competative world. Why didn't Zhejiang Administration disclose other failed models? This shows how much half-baked news it is. Pity that u believed all these stuff which didn't reach a conclusion and went on to teach everyone here. Don't come to conclusion yourself when the actual one is ending up no where!