Originally posted by normhead Painfully absent. There were a few pre-production lenses available from a japanese website, I don't think it ever went into full production.
Those pre-production lenses were not "available".
Believe me, I would have tried to buy one if they had been,
since it would have nicely rounded out the Q system for me.
The tantalizing posts on the Japanese website
were from an enthusiast who managed to gain brief access to a copy.
In this thread about a Pentax lens roadmap,
the "now you see it, now you don't" experience with that 09 Tele Macro
is precisely why I think we cannot be so sanguine
about these "Ricoh has a plan" claims,
and why I think we shouldn't take the roadmaps too seriously.