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The new Pentax WG-90 waterproof shock-resistant digital compact camera is now available for pre-order

By admin | Published: January 22, 2024

The new Pentax WG-90 waterproof shock-resistant digital compact camera is now available for pre-order at B&H Photo (coming soon to Amazon as well). Additional information:

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The official Ricoh Imaging online store in Japan has started selling photographic film

By admin | Published: January 20, 2024

The official Ricoh Imaging online store in Japan has started selling photographic film. Notably, they are selling Kodak Portra much cheaper than Yodobashi (15,800 yen vs 21,870 yen at Yodobashi for Portra 400 – check US Porta prices at Amazon). No doubt this is part of their preparation for the launch of the new Pentax […]

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The Ricoh GR IIIx is the best-selling compact camera for 2023 at Yodobashi Camera in Japan

By admin | Published: January 15, 2024

The Ricoh GR IIIx is the best-selling compact camera for 2023 at Yodobashi Camera in Japan. Here is the full list: Ricoh GR IIIx OM SYSTEM Tough TG-7 Canon PowerShot SX740 HS Canon IXY 650 Sony ZV-1 II Ricoh GR III Leica Q3 Kodak PIXPRO WPZ2 Ricoh GR IIIx Urban Edition Sony Cybershot RX100 VII

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Pentax digest #81

By admin | Published: January 13, 2024

→ Ulanzi released a new F12 mini camera flash speedlite L044GBB1 with a price tag of $30. → The new Maven Wave 2 color-coded filters raised over $335k on Kickstarter. → DxO software offers new savings when purchasing more than one of their products (scroll down to the bottom of this page to see all available combos). → Similar to Godox and Hobolite, Viltrox announced […]

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Pentax K-1 and K-1 Mark II firmware update version 2.41 released

By admin | Published: January 11, 2024

Ricoh releases firmware upgrade version 2.41 for Pentax K-1 and K-1 Mark II cameras – this is a revised version of firmware 2.40 that was released on December 7, 2023, and was later suspended: Pentax K-1 camera firmware update version 2.41 Pentax K-1 Mark II camera firmware update version 2.41 Changes to V2.41 from V2.40:

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Happy New Year and the most popular blog posts of 2023

By admin | Published: December 31, 2023

Happy New Year to all PentaxRumors readers, sources, and contributors! Since I started PentaxRumors 9 years ago, we have over 1,600 blog posts and over 5,000 comments: You can follow PentaxRumors on Twitter and Facebook. The RSS feed is https://pentaxrumors.com/feed/. You can subscribe to email notifications on FeedRabbit for free (you will need to enter the PentaxRumors RSS feed: https://pentaxrumors.com/feed/). Also, […]

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Pentax digest #78

By admin | Published: December 28, 2023

→ PictureCorrect holiday sale. → The 25% off offer from Topaz Labs for their Photo AI and Video AI apps is ending this weekend. The new version of Gigapixel 7 will be released in January and is still available for pre-order at the discounted price of $99. → Vote for the 2023 Worst Camera of the Year award (see previous winners here). → ON1 released a […]

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