Originally posted by Uluru Many Pentaxians will be very disappointed they didn't buy old ones in time.
Anyone paying attention should have foreseen this when there was that brief FA Limited sale with the K5II/IIs introduction 18 months ago.
The new ones might not be all that different - maybe an updated lens barrel, HD coatings and QS. Maybe a focus motor.
I guess the biggest change that would upset people might be the removal of the aperture ring if that were to happen. Would that be so bad? .
There will always be lenses available second hand. After a time the prices will normalize and the market will clear. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a flood of very good (and not so good) second hand FF lenses appear on the market when a FF body is released, offered by all those people who have been buying and hoarding lenses forever, waiting for the camera to come out.
I wouldn't even be surprised to see prices of some of the harder lenses go down a bit.