Originally posted by normhead They are just waiting until we have all forgotten about it, then they'll release it. That way it will be a surprise. We are actually holding up it's release. Everyone drink beer until you've all forgotten.
I'm not totally sure why I bother with these threads. My photo gear works and it will keep working until this lens and the others come out. And I do wonder of all those griping about the release date of this lens what percentage are actually planning to buy it or any of the other DFA * primes? It seems like there are plenty of people with just sour grapes for no particular reason.
If your budget is a max of six or seven hundred dollars, then just get a DA *55 or FA 43 and be done with it. Both of those are excellent lenses. The coming of a full frame Pentax didn't change that.
In the end, I expect this to be incrementally better than past lenses with a lot better auto focus than the DA *55, but acting like you can't get good images till some of these primes come out is just silly (I know you didn't say that, but there are others on this thread who act as though the K-1 is chopped liver with the current lens line up).