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Ricoh released Q2 financial results: “The Camera business performed well thanks to the contribution of new products, resulting in increased sales and profits”

By admin | Published: November 9, 2024

Ricoh released their Q2 financial results. Here is the overview for the “Other” segment that includes also the camera division:

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Ricoh Japan: partial resumption of orders for some GR models

By admin | Published: November 5, 2024

Ricoh Japan announced a partial resumption of orders for some GR models. Check Ricoh GR camera’s availability at: US: Adorama | B&H Photo | Amazon DE: Foto Erhardt UK: WEX | Park Cameras Full text of the press release (Google translated):

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New Pentax K-3 III/Monochrom firmware update version 2.20 released

By admin | Published: October 29, 2024

Rioch released new firmware updates version 2.20 for the Pentax K-3 III/Monochrom cameras:

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Ricoh/Pentax interview at the 2024 Paris Photo Show

By admin | Published: October 26, 2024

Phototrend published their interview from the 2024 Paris Photo Show with Yazid Belmadi (Ricoh sales manager). Here is the recap by digicame-info:

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Pentax digest #90

By admin | Published: October 23, 2024

→ Ricoh now also sells the new “Grad ND” software for the latest Pentax DSLR cameras in Europe. → Ricoh issued a notice of resumption of orders for the Pentax 17 film camera. → A guide to disassembling the Ricoh GR camera for sensor cleaning. → New app for Ricoh GR recipes: Camset. → GR SPACE TOKYO will […]

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Somebody converted their Ricoh GRIIIx camera into Monochrome (DIY)

By admin | Published: October 19, 2024

There have been some rumors about a Ricoh GRIII Monochrome camera in the past. An old Ricoh patent (2016-201400) suggested a Bayer sensor without a color filter array (CFA) for sharper monochrome images. Check out this amzing Ricoh GRIIIx Monochrome DIY conversion performed by a fan in China (more videos available here):

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The latest releases from Topaz, Luminar, DxO, ON1, and Adobe

By admin | Published: October 18, 2024

→ Topaz Labs released several new updates: Photo AI 3.3: includes new improvements like Super Focus and Recover Faces Gen 2. Gigapixel 8: with new Redefine Model (Creative Upscaler), Recovery Model, and Gen2 Face Recovery. New Gigapixel Cloud Service: a credit-based server processing option that allows you to offload processing tasks for faster and more efficient […]

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