Originally posted by Pål Jensen On the roadmap FF lenses are grey and purple. Cropped lenses are green and orange. The lens in question is orange; it is labeled DA* (cropped) and the focal lenght range strongly suggest a lens for APS. Pentax also have said it is a replacement for the 16-50. Indications doesn't come any stronger than this.
but we all know that lots of the DAs and DA*s are FF compatible. Pentax will need to rebadge lots of lenses if they do bring out a FF camera. otherwise anyone who doesn't read this forum would think there are only like 6 current lenses that work on it!
whats more, putting it in FF colours would make it completely obvious that they are planning a FF, and would spoil all of their effort hiding it.
i don't think that the colours mean anything really. though 16 on FF is very wide.