Originally posted by edmundrt Translation:
'The lens I'm currently testing.
It's small, it's light, the AF is fast and the photos are great at both macro and infinity. [he uses a difficult-to-translate superlative, 'tondemonai', to describe it, but it means it's really brilliant]
The specs and stuff will be a little while coming...it's only young, don't give up hope yet. Keep it up Pentax.'
I'm amazed. I really thought the Q was dead, but if this thing turns up I'm dusting off my Q10 and snapping some bugs.
The two following tweets:
あ、言い忘れましたけど、このレンズ、海外のあるところから借りてるもの。このことはリコーはまったく知らず、です。念のため。
Google translation:
Oh, I forgot to mention, but this lens, I borrowed it from a place abroad. Ricoh does not know this at all. Just in case. Twitter
リコーはQをやめるともTELEPHOTO MACROの開発をやめたと(ひと言)も言っていない。が、残念ながら、状況はなんとなく「マイナス」側の方に向かいつつある。でもここで、皆んなが盛りたてて声援を送れば「プラス」側に反転する可能性はなくもない。だからぼくはあきらめず応援する。
Google translation:
Ricoh did not say (quote) that they quit Q and also ceased development of TELEPHOTO MACRO. Unfortunately, the situation is headed towards "minus" side. But here, there is the possibility of reversing to "plus" side if everyone is crowded and cheers. So I will not give up and support you. Twitter
The author of the tweets, thisistanaka, is Kimio Tanaka, about whom JPT recently said:
Originally posted by JPT (...) it is Kimio Tanaka, who is a well known photographer. He is not exclusively a Pentaxian, but he has often been involved with Ricoh/Pentax events and promotions, such as speaking about the K-1 on the Ricoh stage at CP+ 2016. You can also currently find a user report for the KP by him featured on the Ricoh site -
???????/???????/PENTAX KP | RICOH IMAGING
So this is someone close enough to Ricoh to know what is going on. He could also be a conduit for Ricoh to knowingly "leak" information when required, which is what I suspect may the case here.