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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Pentax 17 to be Shipped on July 18 (in Japan at least)

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 See this info in the Japanese Amazon. It seems that the date of shipment of the 17 has been fixed. And, there are some additonal technical ...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Pentax 17 - An Olympus Pen after 60 Years?

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The vertical 135 half frame, the purely-guessed manual zone focusing, manual winding and rewinding, automatic electric-eye metering, a slow ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Some Pentax 17 Reviews (with Sample Photos)

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1. B&H: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/videos/photography/finally-a-new-film-camera-announcing-the-pentax-17/BI/2446/KBID/3285/SID...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Pentax User Survey

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  https://questant.jp/q/86PT0EYA
Monday, January 29, 2024

SDMs DO Require Preventive Maintenance!

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Owing to the prolonged infamous failure of the SDMs in various Pentax AF lens models, I only bought my first SDM lens, the DA*55 F1.4, back ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

News from Ricoh - K-1 III is Still Under Development and etc.

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From a latest post in the Xitek Pentax forum, an interview with the Ricoh senior officials (from the product development and planning divis...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

The Pentax 645 Digital Lineup is Really Done

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See the official  discontinued lens list here , even the DFA 55/2.8 SDM and DFA 90/2.8 Macro SR lenses are now included: So, the Pentax 645 ...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Leak on the "New" FA 50mm F1.4 Lenses

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Ned Bunnell's Take on the K-3 III Mono

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See his latest posted samples at Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ned_bunnell/sets/72177720307495920/ via his DPR post here . Whilst th...
Friday, April 14, 2023

More K-3 III Monochrome Samples at the "Pentax Official" Site

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https://pentaxofficial.com/18527/ https://pentaxofficial.com/18482/ https://pentaxofficial.com/18512/ All in Japanese, but the pictures spea...