Originally posted by JPT This keep being repeated, but the FA Limiteds are not discontinued according to Ricoh.
Why is it then that a German dealer has not been able to order FA Limiteds for years now?
We end users naturally have to speculate a lot because we don't know anything for sure. However when a German dealer tells me he cannot order FA Limiteds anymore because Pentax has ceased production and also people with insider knowledge like asahi man
confirm that FA Limited production has ceased then that tells me there is probably more to the story than just a temporary production halt.
One can believe that there is a difference between "ceasing production" and "never producing these lenses again", but if we were really talking about a temporary halt only, why wouldn't it be possible for Pentax to provide the German dealer with FA Limiteds so that he can sell them?
A new FA 77/1.8 in a new Ricoh box sounds odd with respect to the above, but perhaps this means that
- they still have a lot of inventory that they would like to sell, and
- there is an FF model to be released soon that comes also in bundles involving the FA Limiteds.
Last edited by Class A; 08-03-2014 at 09:18 PM.