Originally posted by surfar So the other lenses that are roadmapped become delayed as well....BUT, what if there are delays with them?
That soon?...20mm..35mm 85mm 135mm...F4 70/200...TC.It wont be 3 years,its going to take 2.5 years from the announce date of the K-1 to get the 50mm out there.Prime shooters have to wait, or manually focus the mostly unsealed 3rd partys.
Thank heavens, the Zooms are all top quality....i'm sure the primes will be worth the wait to the patient.For the not so patient,theres other options.
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Yes and the excellent 28-105(which has been updated to the K-1ii kit lens, maybe the best ever "kit"lens).
Obviously RI are stretched in a number of places and cant provide everything thats needed/wanted yesterday.
Obviously we don't know anything specific, but my guess is that this has little to do with the teams designing new lenses and everything to do with production and insuring quality of the end product. Assuming that the processes are put into place to insure that for the DFA * 50, they should already be there for subsequent lenses which follow like the DFA *85, DFA 70-200 f4, etc.
It is clear that Pentax could use more resources and that 2 to 3 top end, new lenses a year is about their max, but i do think that once they get production issues ironed out that other DFA * lenses will have a smoother release.