In a recent interview with Alfa Romeo Japan (both companies had a collaboration recently), Ricoh’s President and CEO Shinobu Takahashi confirmed again that Pentax will not release a mirrorless camera (this is nothing new really, a similar statement has been repeated for a while):
A recent tweet from Kimio Tanaka states that Ricoh has no plans for a 24×36 or 645 mirrorless camera:
Imaging Resource published their interview with Ricoh executives. Here are some interesting quotes:
The January edition of Nippon Camera magazine has an interview with Ricoh/Pentax about their plans for 2019. Here is a recap:
The Pentax LX mirrorless camera was just a concept drawings created by a Pentax fan 7 years ago. The Pentax Digital K mirrorless camera with K-mount, on the other hand, was real (pictured above) – it was designed back in 1997 and was on display at the 2006 Photokina show:
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