Pentax Q mirrorless camera: “hope is almost completely gone, unless a miracle happens, it will never be revived”

By admin | Published: May 9, 2021


The Japanese photographer Kimio Tanaka, who has Ricoh/Pentax insider information and has a good track record of reporting relevant information, mentioned on Twitter that a new Pentax Q mirrorless camera is out of the question – “hope is almost completely gone, unless a miracle happens, it will never be revived“:

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Pentax K-3 Mark III camera review by Dpreview

By admin | Published: May 8, 2021

Dpreview published their Pentax K-3 Mark III camera review:

Dpreview also published a new Pentax K-3 Mark III sample gallery.

Check Pentax K-3 Mark III camera availability at:


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The Topaz Labs sale is ending tomorrow

By admin | Published: May 6, 2021


The $20 off discount on the latest Topaz Labs Gigapixel AI is ending tomorrow (see the new and updated Topaz Labs pricing). Additional information on the new version can be found here.

The Topaz Labs Image Quality Bundle is also on sale for $149.99 (orig. $259.97).

You can get an additional 15% off all Topaz Labs products with code RUMORS15.

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Just released: the Venus Optics Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens is now available also for Pentax K-mount

By admin | Published: May 5, 2021


The Venus Optics Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens was announced last year and was initially only available for Canon EF, Nikon F, Canon RF, Nikon Z, and Sony FE mounts (see previous coverage of this lens).

Venus Optics just released the Pentax K-mount version of the 15mm f/4.5 Zero-D Shift lens and pre-orders are already open:



Lens specifications and additional information (MTF charts, lens design):

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Pentax digest #32

By admin | Published: May 2, 2021


→ The black Pentax K-3 Mark III camera is now in stock at Amazon US


→ SMC Pentax-FA 70-200mm F/4-5.6 Power Zoom vintage lens review at Ephotozine.

→ The latest Pentax/Ricoh related videos:

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Pentax K-3 III first impressions

By admin | Published: April 30, 2021


Pentax K-3 III camera additional coverage:

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New releases from ON1, Avalanche, and Topaz Labs

By admin | Published: April 30, 2021


ON1 released Photo RAW 2021.5 – see the full list of new features here. You can get free 14-day trials for all ON1 products – here is the direct link for the ON1 Photo RAW 2021.5 download/free trial. 20% off on all ON1 products is available with coupon code NIKONRUMORS.


Avalanche Software released Avalanche for Capture One 1.0 – a new solution for users who want to migrate their Aperture, Luminar 4, Luminar AI, or Lightroom photo catalog/library to Capture One – additional information is available here, the pricing can be found here.


Topaz Labs updated several of their software packages (you can also get 15% off all Topaz Labs products with code RUMORS15):

Free trials are available for Topaz products.

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