Ricoh published their quarterly financial report (PDF file here). As a whole the profits went up 74% compared to last year. But the camera business seems to not do so well. Ricoh doesn’t share exact numbers but they write this note:

“decrease in income and profit in the camera business due to the decreasein amounts of sales of digital cameras.”

One more news: The next camera to be announced by Ricoh will be the new Theta V camera.

The interchangeable-lens camera market continues to recover from the impact of last year’s earthquake, particularly in developed countries. As such, the pace of market contraction has been gradually slowing on a global basis. Within this business environment, we sold 1.43 million units in the second quarter, as we limited the decline to 5%. And for the half, we secured the same level of unit sales as in the first half of 2016.

In this quarter as well, sales remained strong, particularly for mirrorless cameras. Within this trend, we grew sales of the EOS M6, a new mirrorless camera that has been highly rated not only for its high image quality, but also for its compact and lightweight form factor. This camera was designed to capture demand from people who, for example, are considering a step up to a camera with more features and better performance. Including this factor, first half unit sales of mirrorless camera grew more than 70% compared to the same period last year, leading to overall sales growth for interchangeable-lens cameras.

As for compact cameras, we continue to alleviate the pent-up demand following the earthquake last year. Under these circumstances, although our second quarter sales declined 8% to 1.07 million units, we significantly expanded unit sales of our G-Series brand of premium models that have been well received by the market for their design and portability, which subsequently contributed to revenue growth.

hi-lows-note.blog.so-net.ne.jp spotted two new patenta from Nikon.

Patent 1:
It shows a 24-68mm f/2.8-4 lens for a Ful Frame Mirrorless system camera. Unlike the last week 35mm f/2.0 lens this new zoom is not designed for a mirrorless camera with curved sensor. Here are the sketches:

Patent 2:
This one shows a multifunctional Hot-shoe adapter

Adobe accidentally made a “nimbus” app download available to some Creative Cloud customers. French site MacG catched the leak and reports:

“This leak tells us something new: Nimbus users have 1TB of storage in the cloud. This is much more than the 20 GB usually offered to Creative Cloud subscribers.”

Nimbus is expected to be released as a Beta Version sometimes in late 2017.

A photograph is shaped more by the person behind the camera than by what’s in front of it.
To prove this we invited six photographers to a portrait session with a twist. ‘Decoy’ is one of six experiments from The Lab, designed to shift creative thinking behind the lens.