Originally posted by MadMathMind It's going to be hard for anyone to recommend the Mark II to a new entrant with these glaring deficiencies left unfixed this long.
The idea of the K1 Mark II is to solve the shutter shock issue while putting forwards some other features/tweaks on the K1 II (doing so avoids to acknowledge the shutter shock issue. In fact some people have not even noticed it because their eye sight is aging, so they are happy with the K1, although it resolves less than what it should). They couldn't release primes lenses for the K1, because the shutter shock would be so visible. That's why there was so much drag in 2017, and a K1 Mark II this year along with new lenses. Shutter shock is something RI are very aware of, they can measure it is the lab, shutter shock is relate to how the cavity and shutter mechanism are designed, and on the K1 they could postpone the release again to fix this issue, so they decided to release the K1 anyway. The 50mm 1.4 is certainly already available, but using it on the K1 might not deliver what the lens can do for its size and quality of glass.