The upcoming Ricoh press conference got me thinking about the company’s current line of photo products and I realized that this year they were supposed to announce three new 645 lenses but unless I have missed something, there has been no word on those products. The expected new 645 lenses are: Wide zoom (24-45mm) Standard zoom […]
The 2013 IFA Consumer Electronic Show will start this Friday (September 6th). Ricoh has scheduled a press conference for Thursday, September 5 at 3:00pm CEST. I have no idea what will be announced but if you do, please let me know. On the same website you can also watch the live Sony press conference tomorrow.
Fuji X100s is now in stock sorry, it sold out. Sony RX1r is now in stock Sony RX100MII is now in stock Ricoh GR is now in stock Fuji X-M1 is now in stock
LumoPro LP180 quad-sync manual flash announced. Kodak’s PixPro AZ521 camera is the world’s first compact camera with 52x optical zoom. Ricoh filed a patent for a new bounce flash. Canon filed patents for 28mm, 35mm, 40mm and 45mm f/2.8 full frame pancake lenses.
Rumors coming from Asia suggest that Ricoh is working on a new GXR camera. Some of the GXR configurations were marked as discontinued few months ago. As of today (according to B&H), the body only GXR module is no longer available and the GXR + A16 24-85mm f/3.5-5.5 module is listed as discontinued. The only two available GXR […]
Sony quietly announced a new DT 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM II lens which is now sold as as a kit lens with the Sony Alpha SLT-A65 camera. A new Tokina 11-16mm cinema lens is coming in September, the price is expected to be under $2000. Pentax Japan announced a company name change: “Pentax Ricoh” from now on […]
Several readers informed me that the new Ricoh GR is already shipping in the US. At some point the camera was available in stock at Amazon, mainly from third party resellers. DxOMark published their latest test results and the GR scored slightly below the Nikon Coolpix A (see review): Ricoh GR ($796.95) vs. Nikon Coolpix A […]
The Ricoh GXR camera body, GRX + S10 lens kit and GRX + A16 lens kit are all listed as discontinued. The GXR system was announced in November 2009 but since the modules where the sensor is located are interchangeable, it remains to be seen if Ricoh will decide to upgrade the camera body. The Ricoh GXR camera body […]
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