Category Archives: Pentax

What else is new? [weekend digest]

By PR admin | Published: July 22, 2012

Pentax K-5 price drop – now $879. Samsung lowers the price of the EX2F camera by $50. Fujifilm announced the discontinuation of the Fujichrome Velvia 100F and some of the Velvia 50 formats: the affected films are Fujichrome Velvia 100F in 35mm, 120 and 4”x5” formats and Velvia 50 in 4”x5” and 8”x10”.

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Pentax Ricoh products shuffle

By PR admin | Published: July 13, 2012

Noboru Akabane, President of Pentax Imaging Ricoh, announced plans to abolish future Pentax compact digital cameras and focus on DSLRs. All future compact cameras will be under the Ricoh brand while DSLR and mirrorless camera will be under the Pentax name. It is not clear what will happen with the Ricoh GXR system. Via Digicame-info

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What else is new? [weekend digest]

By PR admin | Published: July 8, 2012

The Fuji X100 limited edition kit is now $100 off. Pentax K-30 now shipping in the US. The President of Olympus said that the OM-D E-M5 sensor is made by Sony.

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The latest patents from Canon, Panasonic and Pentax

By PR admin | Published: July 2, 2012

Canon filed a patent 2012123155 for a 35mm f/1.4 lens: Patent released date: June 28, 2012 Patent filing date: December 8th, 2010 Focal length: 34.73mm Aperture: 1.45 Half angle of view: 31.92 deg Image height: 21.64mm Length: 128.11mm Back focus: 38.48mm Lens diameter: 52.03mm Lens design: 12 elements in 9 groups sheet, 2 aspherical elements

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What else is new? [weekend digest]

By PR admin | Published: June 23, 2012

New laptop sleeves from ThinkTankPhoto: Artificial Intelligence 13 V3.0, Artificial Intelligence 15 V3.0, Artificial Intelligence 17 V3.0. Samples of the new Fujifilm WCL-X100 conversion lens for the X100. New firmware released for Canon EOS 60D and Canon EOS 60Da. Pentax no longer supports the AF-540FGZ flash.

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Third mirrorless APS-C lens patent from Pentax: 16-55mm f/3.5-5.6

By PR admin | Published: June 22, 2012

After the 18-70mm f/3.5-7.1 and 18-55mm f/3.5-6.7 lens patents, Pentax filed another patent in Japan for a 16-55mm f/3.5-5.6 APS-C mirrorless lens:

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Is this the replacement of the Pentax 645D medium format camera?

By PR admin | Published: June 20, 2012

Update: this one is busted – you can see the original image here. I already reported that Pentax is working on a replacement of the 645D medium format camera and it seems that the first teaser is already out. The website that hosts this image is registered by a private individual in China, but the picture looks legit. For […]

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More Pentax full frame DSLR rumors

By PR admin | Published: June 15, 2012

Rumors about a new Pentax full frame DSLR camera have been circulating for a while. Here are some new updates:

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