> Yes, but the market demand for the A 15 must have been dropped > seriously lately. From 37 lenses a year to, perhaps, 37 lenses in > 5 years...
Yes, could be. Perhaps the original "obvious answer [...] that we can't afford to stop making it if we want to keep calling ourselves a serious photographic company" is not so obvious anymore - <g>... The ad, of course, was for the SMC "K" version of the lens, and perhaps a more recent ad ~could~ have said something such as "How Can We Afford to Keep Making a Lens Only 3 or 4 (or maybe 5 on a leap year) Photographers Will Buy This Year?"... Fred
