in your post at
DA560 production end / successor ? - PentaxForums.com, you said, "Well, the ordinary person with a Rebel has been stiffed, too."
I'd like to know, being ignorant of that entirely, what you mean by it. How have such persons been stiffed? The reason I ask is that I've got a kid who has a Rebel of some generation, maybe he needs Santa to send him a new camera.
Having had nothing but disasters with the DA 560mm, and warranty claims unreasonably rejected ("impact damage" that never happened) by Ricoh/Precision, I went out and bought a Canon 5ds-r and a 150-600 Tamron zoom - whole package cost less than the 560, and works better than that lens on either the KP or K-1. I'm imposing "economic sanctions" on Pentax from here on out.