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Firmware Friday: Seven cameras from Blackmagic, Canon, Leica, Ricoh and Sigma get updates

 
 

After a few weeks in a row of smaller roundups, our regular Firmware Friday series returns with a rather larger article this week, bringing news from no less than five manufacturers -- Blackmagic, Canon, Leica, Ricoh and Sigma. In all, seven different cameras have received updates (or the promise of future updates) in...

Theta in space: Ricoh partners with JAXA for out-of-this-world spherical panos


 
 

Ricoh has developed a strong reputation for itself in the 360-degree camera market. Since the 2013 CP+ show in Japan, when the company first showed off a prototype of what would become its Theta 360-degree spherical panoramic camera, it has launched numerous followup models. It's added video capture, improved image...

Firmware Friday: New features for Ricoh GR III; Ricoh Theta Z1 also gets some tweaks


 
 

Our regular Firmware Friday roundup returns this week as an all-Ricoh affair, as the company was the only one to release any new firmware in the past seven days. And with that being the case, it's going to be a very short and sweet roundup indeed.

So what's new from Ricoh? Well, there are two of the company's...

Medium-format DSLRs are coming, and mirrorless converts will return! Ricoh Q&A from CP+


 
 

Recently, I had the opportunity to meet with executives from Ricoh -- the company behind the Pentax brand -- alongside the CP+ tradeshow in Tokyo. Speaking on behalf of both brands were Ricoh Co. Ltd.'s Takashi Arai of the Product Planning Department, Product Development Center, Smart Vision Business Group; Hiroki...