Originally posted by rawr True. But I was trying to understand why 18/2 has come up for discussion. Implies an announcement well ahead of CP+.
Why not? Ricoh Imaging use to make their announcements a bit ahead of big events. Being an outsider, they would take the chance of being unnoticed if they did otherwise. Sometimes they even split their announcements in two parts:
2012 (CP+ started on February 9th)
- February 2nd: K-01 and a GXR lensor
- February 7th: Optio WG-2 and WG-2 GPS
2014 (CP+ started on February 13th)
- February 5th: HD DA AF 1,4x AW (converter), WG-20 and WG-4 / WG-4 GPS
2015 (CP+ started on February 12th)
- February 4th: HD D FA★ 70-200mm f/2.8 ED DC AW and HD D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6 ED DC AW
- February 9th: K-S2, HD DA 18-50mm f/4-5.6 DC WR RE, smc DA L 18-50mm f/4-5.6 DC WR RE, AF 201 FG and WG-5 GPS.