On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Tom Reese wrote: > demand has suddenly skyrocked and Pentax can't ship fast enough (yeah right)
I think this might actually be the case for some of the popular lenses. I ordered my FA 35/2 in Feb or March and it showed up in April. During that time everyone showed it as backordered. It was still shown as backordered when it finally arrived from Adorama. I expect that the *ist D is causing people to change their lens lineup. It has for me. Before purchasing the *ist D I didn't own any of the lenses except for my 50/1.7 that I now carry on a regular basis. The 35/2 is a pretty obvious normal lens choice for the *ist D (28/2.8 is another, but a stop slower). I'm making the wild guess that most of the 35/2s which are being sold now, and forcing them into backordered status, are being used on the *ist D. alex
