Happy New Year and the most popular blog posts of 2022

By admin | Published: January 1, 2023


Happy New Year to all PentaxRumors readers, sources, and contributors! Since I started PentaxRumors 8 years ago, we now have over 1,400 blog posts and almost 5,000 comments:


Here are the top 2022 PentaxRumors visitors by country:


We are continuing the tradition with the top 10 most popular PentaxRumors blog posts for 2022 (see previous years here):

  1. Customized Ricoh GRm monochrome camera
  2. Ricoh announces major restructuring of their camera business
  3. Ricoh to announce a new Pentax KF DSLR camera
  4. Rumors about new Pentax lenses: 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 and 50-135mm f/2.8
  5. Pentax K-3 III Monochrome & K-70 dedicated to Astrophotography
  6. New Pentax K-3 III Jet Black Limited now available for crowdfunding
  7. Breaking news: Pentax is starting a new film camera project
  8. Pentax/Ricoh ranked as “Favorite Digital Camera Manufacturer” in Japan
  9. Coming soon: new Ricoh GR IIIx Urban Edition Special Limited Kit
  10. More Pentax KF DSLR camera leaks (pictures and specifications)

The top 10 PentaxRumors posts for December 2022 are:

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Topaz Labs and DxO holiday promos to end this weekend

By admin | Published: December 29, 2022


The holiday promo from Topaz Labs is ending this weekend:


DxO is offering 30% off when you buy more than one of their products (both offers will expire on December 31, 2022):

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Coming soon: Ricoh GR III “Diary” limited edition camera

By admin | Published: December 28, 2022


Ricoh will soon announce a new GR III “Diary” limited edition camera that will most likely be targeted at the Chinese market. A total of 2,000 units will be produced worldwide. Here are the details:

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New LightPix FlashQ M20 camera flash announced

By admin | Published: December 28, 2022


LightPix Labs released a new compact FlashQ M20 GN20 camera flash, Additional information is available here:

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Ricoh launches new GR III/GR IIIx camera leather cases in collaboration with Ulysses

By admin | Published: December 26, 2022





Ricoh launched new GR III/GR IIIx camera leather cases in collaboration with Ulysses. The new cases can be found at the official Ricoh Japan online store and on Amazon.

Additional pictures:

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The latest Topaz Labs releases

By admin | Published: December 25, 2022


The latest Topaz Labs releases (check out also the Topaz Labs Holiday Promotion):

  • Video AI version 3.0.7 released with improved model quality, better codec support, and a smoother app experience
  • Photo AI version 1.1 released with improved RAW noise reduction, better noise detection, and many performance enhancements

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Ricoh has the most expensive compact cameras with the lowest market share

By admin | Published: December 23, 2022


BCN Ranking published its latest data about the compact camera market. Sales volume from compacts increased more than 7 times in less than 2 years. Ricoh has the smallest market share with the most expensive cameras:

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