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    Pentax finally brings back its best-rugged camera lineup with the WG-8 and WG-1000

    Pentax finally brings back its best-rugged camera lineup with the WG-8 and WG-1000
    Jun 6, 2024 Sagiv Gilburd

    Finally! Years after the last time the beloved Pentax WG series had a new main camera, Ricoh announced the new WG-8 ($399) and WG-1000 ($229)…

    Pentax Film Camera Sample Frames

    New Pentax film camera teaser confirms half-frame 35mm
    May 20, 2024 John Aldred

    Despite sharing much of its journey so far, Pentax is being quite coy with the specs of its upcoming film camera project. It’ll be the…

    Pentax WG-90 Black

    Ricoh’s Pentax WG-90 is a WG-80 with a new name
    Jan 25, 2024 John Aldred

    Ricoh has announced the new Pentax WG-90. And true to form, it’s pretty much identical to its predecessor. In fact, I can’t see a single…

    The Pentax K-1 II gets new astrophotography features
    Dec 14, 2023 Sagiv Gilburd

    If you like astrophotography, you may want to know that another firmware update for the Pentax K-1 II ($1896) was released. The update made some…

    The teased Pentax prototype film camera

    Pentax offers a sneak peek of new film camera prototype at Japan exhibition
    Jul 4, 2023 John Aldred

    It’s no secret that Pentax is working on a film camera. They’ve actually made quite a big deal of it, with the launch of a…

    Retailers report Pentax 645Z discontinued without a successor
    Jun 5, 2023 John Aldred

    Japanese photography retailer Map Camera reports that production of the Pentax 645Z medium format DSLR (buy here) has ended. In a Tweet, the company said…

    Pentax K3 monochrome review – what a great camera!
    Jun 3, 2023 Luigi Barbano

    Thanks to Fowa, the folks who bring Pentax cameras to Italy, I got a chance to try out the Pentax K3 MkIII monochrome (buy here)…

    Holiday Gift Guide – The best new cameras of 2022
    Dec 12, 2022 John Aldred

    It’s December again, which means lots of us are sitting there wondering what to buy for ourselves or the photographer in our lives this holiday…

    Pentax updates its K mount lens roadmap but there’s nothing new on it
    Dec 8, 2022 John Aldred

    Pentax has updated its K mount lens roadmap as of November 2022. This sounds like it should be a good thing, although it’s really not….

    Is Ricoh finally giving up on Pentax DSLRs and leaving the camera business?
    Dec 7, 2022 John Aldred

    In a recent article on Japanese outlet Newswitch, Ricoh CFO Shun Kawaguchi says that the company is looking to essentially dump some of its business…