Originally posted by ogl This lens was never disappeared from Pentax current line of lenses and official PDF files with description of lenses.
But it has been absent from the N. America market for the last year or so. (I don't remember exactly when it disappeared.) For some reason they chose to not import the FA 35/2, despite its being readily available in Asia. Its absence from the lineup here was a source of considerable frustration to Pentax shooters in this part of the world, particularly with the release of the K-1, but now it is magically back.
FWIW, there was an earlier gap when both the FA 35/2 and FA 50/1.4 were officially listed as discontinued for all markets except Japan. That continued for several years around 2010.
Steve