Pentax & Ricoh Rumors

Ending soon on Kickstarter: Clever Supply camera sling bag and SPINN CP camera strap 2023 edition

By admin | Published: February 28, 2023

The latest Kickstarter/Indiegogo updates:

39 hours left: Camera sling bag by Clever Supply Co.: $93,724 pledged of $15,000 goal (additional information)

44 hours left: SPINN CP camera strap 2023 edition: $91,099 pledged of $13,237 goal

Many previously crowdfunded projects are still available for purchase:

Via PhotoRumors

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32 winning photos of the GR Photo Festival 2022 have been selected

By admin | Published: February 28, 2023

10 judges have selected 32 winning photos of the GR Photo Festival 2022 from around the world – you can see the pictures and the stories on this page:

Additional information:

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Lensbaby announced new Double Glass II Optic + Composer Pro II for Pentax K mount

By admin | Published: February 23, 2023

Lensbaby announced a new Double Glass II Optic and Composer Pro II for Pentax K-mount, here are the details:

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Pentax trade-in program (USA)

By admin | Published: February 22, 2023

Ricoh US has a new trade-in program where you can trade in your old DSLR and get up to $250 in credit towards the purchase of a new Pentax K-1 Mark II or Pentax K-3 Mark III cameras. This offer is valid until March 31st. Additional information is available here.

You can try also the trade-in programs at Adorama, B&H Photo, and KEH.

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This new OpticExplorer lens simulator/database has the details on over 100 Pentax lenses

By admin | Published: February 21, 2023

Optic Explorer contacted me about their new lens simulator/lens database website (http://www.opticexplorer.com). You can use this web application to simulate the characteristics and performance of many lenses. There’s also a sizable database of existing lens designs that can be searched for and simulated. You can explore the lens database and tinker with lenses, light sources etc. without logging in or creating an account. If you want to create your own library of lens designs, you can create an account to store and share your designs. In either case, it’s free to use.

The Pentax lens selection can be found here.

Here are a few more screenshots:

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How to follow PentaxRumors (email subscription, RSS feed, social media)

By admin | Published: February 20, 2023

I still have readers emailing me with questions on how to subscribe to PentaxRumors. The previous email subscription service called Feedburner is no longer available – Google decided to kill it after I have been using it for 15 years.

Email Subscription

You can subscribe for email notifications on FeedRabbit for free (you will need to enter the PentaxRumors RSS feed: https://pentaxrumors.com/feed/).

RSS Feed

When Google killed the email subscription service, they also broke the blog’s RSS feed. If you are using RSS to get PentaxRumors updates, please make sure you use the correct feed:

https://pentaxrumors.com/feed/

If you don’t use an RSS reader, I can highly recommend it – check Google for additional information.

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Pentax digest #62

By admin | Published: February 18, 2023

→ There is a new Camera Sling by Clever Supply Co. crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that has already raised $82,200 by 358 backers out of a $15,000 goal.

→ Gura Gear launched a new version of the KIboko 30L+ camera bag with an added laptop sleeve. You can use coupon code rumors for 10% off. Additional information is available here.

→ The latest CIPA December numbers and comparison for the last 15 years.