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Pentax finally brings back its best-rugged camera lineup with the WG-8 and WG-1000

Jun 6, 2024 Sagiv Gilburd

Finally! Years after the last time the beloved Pentax WG series had a new main camera, Ricoh announced the new WG-8 ($399) and WG-1000 ($229)…

Ricoh turns to a customer “lottery” to overcome high demand for GR III/IIIx HDF

May 17, 2024 John Aldred

The idea that companies underestimate demand for their products has turned into a bit of a joke at this point. For the past few years,…

Ricoh GR III HDF and GR IIIx HDF come with dreamy diffusion filters

Mar 28, 2024 John Aldred

Ricoh has announced new versions of its GR III and GR IIIx cameras. The Ricoh GR III HDF (buy here) and Ricoh GR IIIx HDF…

Ricoh’s Pentax WG-90 is a WG-80 with a new name

Jan 25, 2024 John Aldred

Ricoh has announced the new Pentax WG-90. And true to form, it’s pretty much identical to its predecessor. In fact, I can’t see a single…

This device claims to turn your Ricoh GR into a “wide format XPan”

Jul 17, 2023 John Aldred

Well, I think this has to be the dumbest snake oil nonsense product I’ve seen so far this year. Being sold by the “Ding ding…

Pentax offers a sneak peek of new film camera prototype at Japan exhibition

Jul 4, 2023 John Aldred

It’s no secret that Pentax is working on a film camera. They’ve actually made quite a big deal of it, with the launch of a…

Pentax Update #2 reveals their first new film camera will be a compact camera

May 15, 2023 John Aldred

In December, Pentax announced they were developing a new film camera. At the time, there was no real information on exactly what type of film…

Pentax takes a step back into the past with the launch of the “Film Camera Project”

Dec 22, 2022 John Aldred

Pentax is an odd duck, for sure. They’ve held onto DSLRs with a death grip against the onslaught of DSLRs, which could potentially become their…

Is Ricoh finally giving up on Pentax DSLRs and leaving the camera business?

Dec 7, 2022 John Aldred

In a recent article on Japanese outlet Newswitch, Ricoh CFO Shun Kawaguchi says that the company is looking to essentially dump some of its business…

Pentax has officially announced the new Pentax KF DSLR but it’s basically a K-70 with a flippy out LCD

Nov 10, 2022 John Aldred

Pentax has now officially announced the new Pentax KF APS-C DSLR. I say “new”, but it’s not really that much different to the K-70. It’s…