Originally posted by Mistral75 According to La Boutique Pentax in Paris, the commercial availability of the HD Pentax-D FA★ 50mm f/1.4 SDM AW is delayed until July 2018. The alleged cause is an incident on the production line.
For all the MBA justification of machines not getting sick, having hangovers, forming unions, making mistakes and being generally imprecise, as do and are people, when your sole, critical, purpose-built machine catastrophically fails* product production is completely shut down until your machine can be repaired or a replacement can be built and installed.
If Ricoh didn’t have bad luck they wouldn’t have any luck at all.
* assuming such an event was the ‘incident’.