You can now proerder the new GFX100:
In USA at BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera and Amazon.
In EU at Calumet DE, Park Cameras UK and Jessops UK.
What a stunning piece of tech! See some of the first hands-on videos:
Peak design has just launched a compltely new kind of Tripod on Kickstarter (Click here). Usually there is little incremental improvement on tripods but Peak Design completely rethinked it:
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Traditional travel tripods have a critical flaw: tons of wasted space. The result is a tool that is inherently difficult to carry with you into the field. We fixed that, and more.
We spent 4 years redesigning the tripod from the ground up to eliminate dead space and minimize packed-down size.
But we didn’t stop at space savings.
We made a tool that deploys and packs down rapidly—nearly twice as fast as a traditional tripod. We made it intuitive and delightful to use. We engineered professional-quality stability and performance. And we added thoughtful features to help you get the shot— with any gear, in any environment, from any point of view.
But there is really MUCH MORE to ssee if you jump over on their Kickstarter page (Click here).
Well this is a surprise:
A reliable source reported on Pentax Forum that the
‘Pentax ownership belongs to HOYA, the right to use belongs to Ricoh, and the lease contract expires in 2020. Maybe this is why Ricoh does not continue to develop Pentax.’
It would be a serious surprise if Ricoh couldn’t use the Pentax brand name from 2020 towards. I hope Ricoh will still manage to extend the terms of use!
In case you misssed this: Adobe changed his mind and now lists the $9,99 monthly plan on their subscription page (Click here). Well they seem to have realized they were getting to much negative feedback on this!
Imaging Resource interviewed a group of Ricoh managers. Here is some of the things they said:
1) Ricohx will continue the 645 medium format line and doesn’t plan to make a mirrorless medium format camera
2) Ricoh has no plan to launch a new mirrorless system camera
3) Ricoh also made this somehow unexpected statement:
Currently, mirrorless is a newcomer, so of course many users are very interested in the new systems, they want to use [them]. But after one or two years, some users who changed their system from DSLR to mirrorless come back to the DSLR again.
So the DSLR market is currently decreasing a little bit, but one year or two years or three years later, it will [begin] getting higher.
I really cannot believe this is true :)
Today the Japanese Camera Press Club announced the Camera GP 2019 Award winners.
Grand Prize:
1st place and winner: Panasonic S1R
2nd place: Nikon Z7
3rd place: Olympus E-M1X
Lens Award:
1st place and winner: Sony 24mm GM
2nd place: Tamron 28-75mm FE
3rd place: Canon 28-70mm f/2.0 R
Best camera selected by the press readers:
Winner: Olympus E-M1X
Best camera and lens selected by the press club member readers:
Camera: Ricoh GRIII
Lens: Tamron 28-75mm FE
