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Thank you for the link, Mitchel. It's very interesting. However, this is not quite fresh news. This interview was published in the beginning of March 2007.
It seems to be the only news there is. From all indications Hoya has clamped a lid on new news and there isn't any. This is probably not completely surprising because they have installed new management who wants their options open as to what they are going to do. It does appear that they are dragging a bit on the ambitious schedule to ship around 9 new lenses during 2007(the pentax roadmap).
While they didn't tie themselves t specific shipping dates, the first two were suppose to be 'real soon now' which turned out to be august, and which even now seem to be fairly hard to get.
It's getting pretty late to bulk up the shelves of the christmas retailers with products that haven't seen the light of day yet. My speculation is that much of the rest of the roadmap will slide into 2008. It's all built around the SDM technology which has had a bumpy start. It would be a major train wreck if they put out a whole family of SDM's that were disappointing.
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