Originally posted by Doundounba No! On the contrary, in the prototype photos (see the very first post in this thread) you can clearly see a little aperture lever sticking out at the bottom right of both shots. (This lever can't be seen on the D-FA 50mm pics.) I doubt this is just happenstance.
Judging by those pics, it's fairly certain that this lens won't be KAF4. This is just a prototype and things could still change of course, but some people just seem intent on panicking unduly.
In general, they haven't pushed KAF4 forward as I had expected them to do.
I am particularly surprised they haven't taken two obvious steps:
(1) create a KAF4 version of the 18-55mm lens
(2) create a KAF4 patch for the K-30.
If they took those two steps, they would be in a much stronger position when people complain about the aperture-control issue with their lower-priced bodies, and reduce whatever hindrance that issue causes to K-70 purchases..