News › Ricoh
Last week, Ricoh Imaging showed reference designs for several upcoming products in its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the time, we were flooded with meetings, so we're only just now getting a chance to cover the news, but we stopped by Ricoh's booth during the show to get some shots...
If you read our Pentax 645Z review, published a couple of months ago, you already know that Ricoh's mighty medium-format DSLR is one seriously impressive camera. It's also very affordable by medium-format camera standards -- but medium-format gear is notoriously pricey, so that's a relative thing.
You've got to...
Sixteen -- make that seventeen cameras already updated, six more updates pledged to arrive soon, one imaging accessory updated, and another accessory likewise promised to receive an update soon: This is one truly epic Firmware Friday. (We have a feeling it's probably record-breaking, and it's actually grown since first...
During the recent Photokina tradeshow in Germany, Ricoh didn't have any new products to show under its Pentax interchangeable-lens camera brand, but the company did have a new lens roadmap on hand, forecasting delivery of four new K-mount zoom lenses in 2014 or later. Today, the first of those four optics has been...
Back in early 2013, Ricoh first showed a prototype of one of the most unusual digital cameras we've ever seen, featuring twin fisheye lenses facing in opposite directions. The idea of that camera, which six months later hit retail as the Ricoh Theta, was that it would capture a full 360-degree spherical panorama in a...
Last December, Ricoh's impressive Pentax K-50 digital SLR took top place in our annual Camera of the Year awards as 2013's Best Entry-Level DSLR. Based around the same sensor as the company's then-flagship Pentax K-5 II DSLR, the key to the K-50's success was a design that brought numerous enthusiast-grade features...
Ricoh Imaging has today announced two new camera models in the WG-series that it inherited in the purchase of the Pentax camera brand a few years ago. The Ricoh WG-30W and WG-30 are both very closely related to each other, with but one key difference that we're aware of. The US-market WG-30W includes a brand-new...
Ricoh, the proprietor of the Pentax brand name, has just annouced a new action cam that continues the WR and WG lines of rugged Pentax cameras. Called the WG-M1, the device looks a bit like a mix of a G-Shock watch and a bike lamp. But as always, it's what's on the inside that counts most.
The basic specs of the Ricoh WG-M1 read as follows: a...
I've shot with many professional DSLRs over the years, right back to when even the most expensive of pro gear consisted of digital innards shoe-horned into a repurposed film SLR body. But until just recently, there was one type of camera that I'd never managed to get my hands on -- at least, away from the trade...
It's a mammoth week for camera updates this Firmware Friday, with no less than four cameras receive new firmware releases, four more have new updates forecast, and various related software and accessories also receive updates.
We'll start off this week with the Sony RX10, for which firmware version 2.00 has now...
Some cameras are anonymous, but others provoke comment literally everywhere you go. This week, I've been shooting Ricoh's awesome Pentax 645Z medium-format DSLR on a working vacation in Denver, Colorado -- coincidentally the home of Ricoh Imaging Americas -- and I can now confirm that it falls firmly into the...
It's crystal ball time, Pentaxians! The hawk-eyed folks at two Japanese tech blogs -- Egami and Love Pentax -- have picked up news of several newly-published patent applications from Ricoh, owner of the Pentax brand, in the last few days. Two of them make quite a bit of sense, but we must admit we're a little baffled by...
Back in 2011, Pentax launched its first compact system camera, the tiny little Pentax Q. Now Ricoh -- current owner of the Pentax brand -- takes the Q-series back to those roots with the Pentax Q-S1, a camera which returns to a body more reminiscent of the original Q, but with the advantages of later models incorporated...
Some cameras aim for balance in all areas of their designs. Others focus on one detail, and take it to the maximum. The Pentax XG-1 takes the latter route, with a seriously powerful zoom lens -- far more so than any past model from the company.
And the XG-1 is interesting for another reason, too. It's the first...
The weekend is here again, and Firmware Friday with it. This week, we keep things short and sweet with just two updates: one apiece from Canon and Ricoh. Both are for what are, relatively speaking, niche cameras -- the fixed-lens Ricoh GR, and the movie-oriented Canon EOS-1D C.
Of the pair, Ricoh's update is the...
You've doubtless heard the idiom about a watched pot never boiling, but for photographers, a more apt metaphor might be that "a lustworthy camera never ships." Once you settle on preordering that just-announced camera, the wait for it to arrive on your doorstep can feel unbearable -- at least, until it finally shows up,...
We've had some big Firmware Friday posts in the last couple of years, but this week takes the cake. We have no less than 19 updates to report on today from Canon, Nikon, Ricoh and Olympus, including 16 cameras -- the majority of them interchangeable-lens -- plus two camcorders and an accessory. With so much to...
Back at the CP+ tradeshow in Japan last February, Ricoh announced quite a range of new photo gear for its Pentax brand, but perhaps the most interesting for film photographers who haven't transitioned their old photos to digital was the Pentax Film Duplicator. Now, the company has provided a release date for this...
During the CP+ photography tradeshow in Japan, Imaging Resource publisher and editor-in-chief Dave Etchells met for interviews with executives from some of the best-known brands in the...
This week, Firmware Friday brings news of a raft of updates for cameras from Pentax, Sony, and Canon -- but that's not all. Mixing things up just a little, we also step outside of the box for a software update from Nikon.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We'll start off with Ricoh's firmware updates for...