Pentax & Ricoh Rumors

Petition: we want full-frame Carl Zeiss lenses for Pentax K-mount

By admin | Published: September 1, 2016

Somebody started a petition on change.org requesting Zeiss to start making full frame lenses for Pentax K mount.

Few months ago Zeiss confirmed that they have no plans to start producing lenses for K mount.

Update on the advisory about Sigma lenses scratching the Pentax K-70 camera

By admin | Published: August 31, 2016

Sigma released a new update on the recent advisory about Sigma lenses scratching the Pentax K-70 camera:

Posted in Pentax K-70, Third party lenses | Tagged Sigma | 2 Comments

Pentax K-1 water resistance test

By admin | Published: August 31, 2016

This new video shows the water resistance capabilities of the Pentax K-1 camera:

Posted in Pentax K-1 | 2 Comments

New Pentax rebates now online

By admin | Published: August 22, 2016

B&H published a new set of Pentax lens rebates that offer up to $600 off on selected lenses/combos:

Posted in Deals, Pentax lenses | Tagged rebates | 2 Comments

Does the Pentax K-1 also have the white dots issue during long exposures?

By admin | Published: August 21, 2016

Does the Pentax K-1 DSLR camera also has a thermal problem/white dots/bright spots during long exposures? A reader sent me the above picture – it appears that Ricoh overlooked the white dot issue during longer exposures (this is a form of noise that shows up on most long exposure taken with Long Exposure noise off). The problem seems to occur the worst on long exposures at ISO 1600 and up to 20 seconds exposure or longer. Nikon had the same issue with the D810 and had an official service advisory. Both the Nikon D810 and the Pentax K-1 cameras use reportedly the same 36MP sensor made by Sony.