Two things come to my mind. It's likely being co-developed with the FF camera. Perhaps something changed last minute in the camera design necessitating changes to this lens too.
Or it could just be manufacturability issues. Some material in the design can't be machined reliably to spec, so needs to be replaced with a new one. I'm thinking of the SDM design which had so many long term issues. I mean, though we don't know exactly what was wrong with it, the basic design worked, but it didn't seem to be reliably mass producible. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.photographyblog.com/news/hd_pentax_d_fa_70_200mm_f_2.8ed_dc_aw_launch_delayed/ > > I suppose it is good that they aren't releasing it until it performs > as it is supposed to, but the delay is still a bit of a black eye. > Might make Ricoh decide not to announce things as early (also maybe > not such a bad thing). > > It does make one wonder what area the performance problem is in, however. > > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
