Category Archives: Ricoh

Ricoh/Pentax full frame camera rumors

By PR admin | Published: October 25, 2013

Pentax Russia gave some new information on their upcoming full frame DSLR camera in a recent interview with penta-club.ru (via Pentaxforums):

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New limited edition Ricoh GR camera

By PR admin | Published: October 22, 2013

Ricoh announced a new limited edition GR camera featuring “magnesium-alloy body sheathed in a metallic vintage green wave-tone finish with a high-gloss shine”. The price is $899.95 (compared to the $796.95 for the regular model) and it will start shipping next month:

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The Theta 360 camera was the only announcement from Ricoh today

By PR admin | Published: September 5, 2013

Ricoh Theta is a new 360° camera (leaked yesterday) compatible with iOS devices and a price tag of $399. Photos can be shared only on the newly design website where you can find more details on the product. Here are the basic camera specifications: The next two videos explain how the Theta camera works:

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For tomorrow: Pentax Theta 360 camera and Fuji XF 23mm f/1.4 R lens announcements

By PR admin | Published: September 4, 2013

For tomorrow’s scheduled press event Ricoh will most likely announce a new 360° camera called Pentax Theta 360. Such camera was rumored last year, but the Pentax acquisition by Ricoh probably delayed the announcement. Various prototypes of similar camera were shown at Photokina (by Pentax) and during the CES show (by Ricoh). The above screenshot taken earlier today is from […]

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What happened to the Pentax 645 system?

By PR admin | Published: September 3, 2013

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 […]

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Ricoh press conference at IFA scheduled for Thursday, September 5th

By PR admin | Published: September 3, 2013

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.

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All “cool” new cameras are now in stock

By PR admin | Published: August 14, 2013

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

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What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: July 14, 2013

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.

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