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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…

    Ricoh Pentax Club House

    Pentax half-frame film camera now in prototype stage, release “as soon as possible”
    Jan 4, 2024 John Aldred

    The Pentax Film Camera Project has been quite an interesting journey to follow. Not least of all because it’s a new film camera being developed…

    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…

    smc PENTAX-DA★ 50-135mm f/2.8 ED [IF] SDM lens shows discontinued at retailers
    Jul 27, 2023 John Aldred

    Last year, there were rumours that Pentax was working on a new 50-135mm f/2.8 lens. Now it looks like that rumour might finally be coming…

    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)…

    Ricoh has discontinued the HD PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2AL Limited silver lens
    May 30, 2023 John Aldred

    It seems that Ricoh Japan has discontinued production of the HD PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2AL Limited silver lens (buy here). The wide-angle HD PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2AL Limited…