Yesterday B&H started taking pre-orders for the new Ricoh GXR A12 unit for Leica M mount lenses. This is a good indication that a shipment is on its way to the store (B&H won’t start taking pre-orders otherwise). Some more pictures of the unit can be seen over at LeicaRumors.
According to this post on flickr, the new Ricoh GR Digital IV will be announced on September 15th, 2011. The new camera will have the same sensor and some minor tweaks: “Body looks V similar, slightly lowered hot shoe, more colors in screen (up to 1.25million from current 800 or so), an extra autofocus sensor on front of body, slightly larger […]
Quesabesde reminds us that Pentax still has to announce their second interchangeable lens camera that will have a larger APS-C sensor. They put the probability of such a new camera system at 50%. It is possible that Ricoh’s recent purchase of Pentax may have put those plans on hold. A recent Pentax roadmap did not have a second camera to be […]
Ricoh (who recently bought Pentax for $124.2 million) officially released the GXR Leica M-mount APS-C module. The price of the unit will be $649. Here are some more images of the unit and the official press release:
The Ricoh GXR Leica M-mount cartridge will be available on September 9th, 2011. The price is still unknown but you can find detailed features description and full technical specs at Fotointern:
Ricoh’s blog published several pictures of the Ricoh GXR M-mount unit that is suppose to be released this fall. The unit will have a 12.9MP 23.6×15.7mm APS-C size CMOS sensor and a newly-developed focal plane shutter:
This just in: July 1, 2011 Dear Valued PENTAX Customers and Partners, We would like to hereby inform you that we, HOYA Corporation, have made an agreement regarding the business transfer of our PENTAX Imaging System Business to RICOH Corporation today, July 1, 2011. The effective date of the business transfer is set for October […]
“Japanese optical glass-maker Hoya said on Friday it would sell its Pentax camera business to copier and printer maker Ricoh , in a deal the Nikkei business daily said was worth about 10 billion yen ($124.2 million).” Read the details on Reuters and also the notice of sale on Hoya’s website. Hoya executives said publicly in the past […]
