Originally posted by bladerunner6 I wrote Tamron earlier this year and they are discontinuing all K mount lenses.
I'd be thrilled if Pentax ended their development of a 35 1.4, licensed this lens, and moved on to a 22 or 24mm lens.
When you consider the resgistration distance of 43mm, 35 is as close to a Standard lens as 50 is. You can' really call it a wide angle, although it appears Pentax is trying to do so. I first heard that 35 is just on the cusp of a wide angle in school in 67. It's been known for a long time.
Years of APS_c use has distorted the understanding of what 35mm is in the Pentax community. Although with APS_c it's even less of a wide angle.