A new Pentax KP DSLR camera was recently (January 11th) registered at the Indonesian telecommunication agency. The camera will have a built-in Wi-Fi and/or a GPS module and it will be manufactured in the Philippines. This could be the new DSLR camera expected to be announced at the CP+ show (I reported about it yesterday).
Via Digicame-info
This twice.com article suggests that Pentax/Ricoh will announce a new DSLR next month at the CP+ show in Japan:
The Pentax K-3 II DSLR camera is reportedly being discontinued in Japan according to Digicame-info:
“On January 10th, I noticed that the K-3 II had disappeared from display at a Yodobashi store, so I asked the shop staff to check with the manufacturer. They were told it had been discontinued (even though it is still listed as a current product on the manufacturer’s homepage).”
The camera is still in stock in the US (B&H and Adorama).
The Pentax K-3 II was announced in April, 2015.
Today at the 2017 CES Ricoh announced the industry’s first camera capable of delivering up to 24 continuous hours of fully spherical, 360-degree live video stream (available spring 2017):
The whole Pentax Q system (including cameras, lenses, roadmaps) has been removed from the Ricoh Imaging’s US website (in both the English and Spanish versions):
The Pentax Q-S1, Q-mount lenses and Q-mount roadmap are still shown on the Japanese website (both the Japanese and English versions) but so is the Ricoh GXR which has been discontinued for a while:
In an interview at Photokina last year, Ricoh representatives confirmed that the Pentax Q mirrorless camera line is alive and will continue to be developed.
The Pentax Q-S1 camera was pulled out of production in May last year but it is still available for sale in the US.
Ricoh is rumored to introduce a new mirrorless system in 2017.
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