Pentax & Ricoh Rumors

HD PENTAX-D FA ★ 50mm f/1.4 SDM AW lens additional info (sharper than the Sigma Art version)

By admin | Published: March 14, 2018

Some more interesting comments from asahi man – first regarding the HD Pentax-D FA★ 50mm f/1.4 SDM AW lens and its cousin the Tokina Opera (he also provided the optical design of the new Pentax 50mm lens – 15 elements in 9 groups):

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Ricoh wins the iF Design Award for the Ricoh Theta V camera

By admin | Published: March 11, 2018

Ricoh wins the iF Design Award for the Ricoh Theta V camera:

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CP+ 2018 Pentax interview

By admin | Published: March 6, 2018

PentaxForums published their video interview with Ricoh Imaging talking about Pentax at the 2018 CP+ show in Japan:

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New Ricoh GR III camera rumored to be announced in September

By admin | Published: March 2, 2018

The Ricoh GR Facebook page posted an interesting message a few days ago indicating a “GR restart” (Google translation):

“In 2018, we are preparing for the new website “GR official” as a very important thing to work on for the first time to restart GR. (Scheduled to start in April)”

There is also this interesting post by asahi man indicating that a new Ricoh GR III camera would come in September for the 2018 Photokina show:

The current Ricoh GR II model was announced in June 2015 and is currently on backorder at B&H and Adorama.