Originally posted by ukhozi Does anyone know how good (or bad) this lens is selling? I mean, does it pay off for Pentax? Does anyone know something about sales numbers? Just curios.
Given the nature of this forum, there will be no known fact base around the question you ask (Pentax doesn't make that information available), however, many people will self develop quite elaborate theories on the matter that will in time come from them (or be stated by them) as self evident truths.
As an observation, in Australia it seemed that it was sold out for some time and a new shipment arrived a couple of weeks ago. Some would deduce from this that it is selling well and sold out....... equally one could make up a story that the importer was pesimistic about the sales of such an expensive lens and got caught out by initially ordering too few.
As time goes by and the price settles on the lens others will declare it's not selling as well as Pentax had hoped........