Ricoh officially denies the rumors saying it’s “shrinking” the camera business

Today Asian Review posted a surprising “rumor” about Ricoh-Pentax:

Ricoh is shrinking its money-losing camera business to concentrate resources on commercial applications as smartphones continue to crowd out long-established names in photography.

But Ricoh quickly reacted and said that the info posted by Asian Review is “not a fact”. That said Asian Review has quite a good track on insider info. So maybe while Ricoh is correct in saying this is not a fact yet it may be that it it’s under consideration and could become a fact soon :(

UPDATE: Ricoh announced that it will revise downward forecasts for the fiscal year. They also announced that it will focus resources on high value added products such as PENTAX and GR.

These are the most popular cameras, settings and seasons for taking photographs (based on 44 million EXIF data)

My name is Daria, I’m with Depositphotos. I wanted to share an infographic that may be useful for your stories.

We’ve analyzed 44 million commercial photos and created an infographic dedicated to the most popular cameras, settings and seasons for taking photographs:
Top 15 cameras for the commercial photography
Top 10 countries where most of the stock photos are being created
Most popular camera settings ( focal length, aperture, flash settings, and exposure time)
We used the EXIF data of our library to extract this data. Please see the detailed description in these images:

Samsung source admits they “recently stopped producing and selling digital cameras”

Anonymous Samsung sources from The Investor confirmed that they stopped producing and selling digital cameras. The source said that smartphone cameras killed their business. At the same time Samsung is seeking for new opportunities: “We will create a new camera product category to continue the business.” The new category may include cameras for smartphones and other mobile devices and the Gear 360 camera that captures high-resolution images and videos in 360-degrees.

Fuji GFX 50S gets Gold Award at Dpreview. Says it has “the best image quality we’ve ever seen”.

Dpreview posted their final GFX review and the camera got a Gold Award for the following reasons:

The Fujifilm GFX 50S represents the company’s entrance into the medium format digital market. It takes the ethos of APS-C X-series cameras and combines it with a larger sensor. Control points are plentiful, image quality is exceptional and autofocus is precise, just don’t expect it to focus on moving subjects. The only thing truly holding back the GFX 50S from reaching its potential is a limited lens selection (at launch) with slow maximum apertures. Still, it is capable of the best image quality we’ve tested to date and is all around a lovely camera to shoot with.

GFX 50S Medium Format Mirrorless Camera at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.