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Retailers report Pentax 645Z discontinued without a successor
Japanese photography retailer Map Camera reports that production of the Pentax 645Z medium format DSLR (buy here) has ended. In a Tweet, the company said…
Pentax K3 monochrome review – what a great camera!
Thanks to Fowa, the folks who bring Pentax cameras to Italy, I got a chance to try out the Pentax K3 MkIII monochrome (buy here)…
Ricoh has discontinued the HD PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2AL Limited silver lens
It seems that Ricoh Japan has discontinued production of the HD PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2AL Limited silver lens (buy here). The wide-angle HD PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2AL Limited…
Pentax Update #2 reveals their first new film camera will be a compact camera
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 announces monochrome version of its K-3 Mark III DSLR
Well, this is a bit of an odd announcement. Although, perhaps Pentax sees themselves as being to DSLRs what Leica is to rangefinders… and then…
Pentax takes a step back into the past with the launch of the “Film Camera Project”
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…
Holiday Gift Guide – The best new cameras of 2022
It’s December again, which means lots of us are sitting there wondering what to buy for ourselves or the photographer in our lives this holiday…
Pentax updates its K mount lens roadmap but there’s nothing new on it
Pentax has updated its K mount lens roadmap as of November 2022. This sounds like it should be a good thing, although it’s really not….
Is Ricoh finally giving up on Pentax DSLRs and leaving the camera business?
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
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…
