Ricoh warns against using non-original accessories on the GR III cameras

By admin | Published: April 3, 2023


Ricoh warns against using non-original accessories on the GR III cameras (Google translated):

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Top 10 PentaxRumors posts for March 2023

By admin | Published: April 2, 2023

  
  

The top 10 PentaxRumors posts for March 2023 are:
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Pentax K-0 camera rumors from Poland

By admin | Published: April 1, 2023


Pentax K-0 camera report from Poland (Google translated):

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New Pentax flash-dedicated website

By admin | Published: March 28, 2023


A reader sent me a link to this new Pentax flash-dedicated website (see all currently available Pentax flash units):

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Two additional Pentax lenses have been discontinued

By admin | Published: March 25, 2023


Two additional Pentax lenses have been discontinued:

  • HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm f/4-5.8 ED WR (source): 生産完了品／在庫限り= discontinued, while stocks last – previously reported here
  • HD Pentax-DA 15mm f/4 ED AL Limited Silver (source): 生産完了品／在庫限り= discontinued, while stock last,  生産完了品のため、なくなり次第終了 (in red) = discontinued product, will end as soon as it’s gone.

In the US the HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm f/4-5.8 ED WR lens is in stock at B&H and Adorama (currently $100 off) and the HD Pentax-DA 15mm f/4 ED AL Limited silver lens is still in stock at B&H.

More discontinued Pentax lenses can be found here:

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Rumors: new Pentax lens with weird specifications to be released soon

By admin | Published: March 24, 2023


The Japanese photographer Kimio Tanaka, who has Ricoh/Pentax insider information and a good track record of reporting relevant information, recently tweeted about a new Pentax lens with “weird/unusual/innovative” specifications to be released soon – here is the translation:

I’ve heard rumors that PENTAX is going to announce a lens with “strange = strange = innovative” specifications soon, but while I was excited, it was half talk (or rather, “fake”).

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President Noboru Akabane had always habitually said that he wanted PENTAX to become a cute brand that people could look at and say, “look at them, they’re doing something crazy again, but I guess that’s just what they do”

By admin | Published: March 20, 2023


The Japanese magazine Barfout published an interview with Takeo Suzuki (Product Planner and Designer of Ricoh Imaging’s PENTAX Business Unit), here is an interesting quote:

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