


The latest August Pentax/Ricoh rebates can be found here:
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Some additional information on the new Ricoh G900/SE II heavy-duty industrial cameras that were announced last week (pre-order here):

Ricoh opened a new “GR SPACE TOKYO” in Harajuku, Tokyo (see current exhibition). A report from the opening can be found at DC.Watch:

Amazon has now opened orders for the new Ricoh GR III HDF camera and is expected to start shipping at the end of August/early September:

Since the new GR III/x HDF cameras were announced in March of this year, Ricoh received a huge amount of pre-orders (over 150,000 in China), and they had to implement a lottery system. Since the official announcement, I have not seen any GR III/x HDF cameras in stock:
Previous coverage of the Ricoh GR III HDF cameras can be found here:

Ricoh Japan issued a notice that GR III camera orders will resume on August 21st. Orders were temporarily suspended earlier this year, and even a lottery system was implemented for the new GR III HDF and GR IIIx HDF models:
Ricoh announced a temporary suspension of GR camera orders because of another supply shortage
A quick look at Adorama, Amazon, and B&H Photo shows that ALL Ricoh GR III camera models are currently out of stock.
Full text of the notice:


This new $7 TTArtisan magnetic film canister with built-in LED light will be a perfect match for your Pentax 17 camera. Here are the details: