Originally posted by normhead The timeline only says what they want you to know they are working on. Nothing more.
After five years, I now tentatively translate "DA Wide Zoom" as Japan-corporate-speak for:
"We are not abandoning APS-C and there will be new DA lenses, so we don't want to have a
completely empty APS-C roadmap, because then you'd freak out. But those lenses we are working on, well, we don't want to tell you about them yet. Heck, we might not even know what they will be because we're currently super busy making much needed new full frame lenses on a very small R&D budget. So we're leaving that DA Wide Zoom on there as a placeholder. Yeah, that
specific lens, it's probably never going to happen. We were going to rebadge the Tokina 12-28mm F/4, but that kinda fell through. Can't tell you why. But we are not abandoning you, APS-C shooter! So stick around and buy a KP!"