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This week's Firmware Friday roundup arrives just a little late, as your humble editor's been under the weather the past few days, and I didn't manage to finish writing it last night. In part, that was down to the amount of news there was to cover -- in the past seven days, we've seen updates from Blackmagic, Canon,...
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...
After a somewhat bigger week last time around, our regular Firmware Friday post arrives this week with news of just two cameras, one lens and one piece of software updated in the past seven days. Unless you're a Nikon or Ricoh / Pentax shooter, there's no news for you this time around. (Although you'll find plenty...
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...
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...
A little over five years ago, Ricoh first took its camera line in a new direction with the launch of the original, VR-friendly Ricoh Theta. At a push of a button (or the prompting of your smartphone) this interesting twin-lensed camera could capture the world around you in its full, 360-degree panoramic...
This week's Firmware Friday roundup is going to be relatively short and sweet, as we're only aware of a few updates in the past seven days. This time around, updates have landed from Canon, Nikon and Ricoh, and in all cases they're providing fixes for bugs rather than new features.
Let's get right down to what's...
After an action-packed June with dozens of updates from most of the main camera brands, our first Firmware Friday roundup for July arrives as a rather more compact affair. This week, we only have news of three still cameras and three video cameras either receiving new updates in the past seven days, or slated to do...
Our CP+ 2018 interview series continues this week with a visit to the booth of electronics and imaging giant Ricoh. The company recently launched its second full-frame digital camera, the Pentax K-1 Mark II, and also launched a upgrade program the likes of which we've never seen in the industry before, allowing K-1...
Our regular Firmware Friday roundup took a brief hiatus last week, and so this week's roundup is actually going to include firmware from the last fortnight. In all, we have news of updates for four cameras this week, although one of the three hasn't yet been released. And we've also learned of updates for some...
Our Firmware Friday roundup for this week brings news of new features for no less than three cameras and one related accessory from Panasonic and Sony. It also brings firmware news of a rather different kind, as update security practices have been a hot topic over the last couple of weeks.
We've a fair bit to...
Another week has reached its end, and with the weekend beckoning it's time for our weekly roundup of all that's new on the firmware front. This week, our Firmware Friday roundup includes news of bug fix updates for three cameras from Hasselblad and Ricoh, as well as a promise of a significant feature-enhancing...
Today's Firmware Friday roundup is a tale of two imaging devices, both of them specialized. The Ricoh Theta V is a 360-degree spherical panoramic camera, while the DJI Inspire 2 is an aerial camera platform, and this week both of them have received updates.
So what's new? Read on and let's find out!
Developers: Fancy taking a large cash prize to the bank, and perhaps scoring yourself a trip to Tokyo, Japan at the same time? If so, you might want to check out the Ricoh Theta × IoT Developers Contest, which kicks off tomorrow, April 1st, with registration running through to August 10th. Final submissions of...
A couple of weeks ago, I published my Ricoh Theta S field test; today, I return with the conclusion of the review!
No question about it, the Ricoh Theta S is one of the most unusual and interesting cameras I've ever shot with, and that shows itself in our review. Where typically one of our reviews would come...
They might vary wildly in price and capabilities, but most cameras have a few things in common: A lens, sensor, display and perhaps viewfinder, as well as a storage card slot and battery compartment. Not so the Ricoh Theta S: This is a camera like none you've ever used before (at least, other than its immediate...
We've seen some fairly unusual cameras over the years, but the Ricoh Theta has to rank amongst the most unusual of the bunch. Ricoh has proven to be very good at finding market niches that have gone unfulfilled, and then creating products which meet that unanswered need, and that's just what it's done with the...
Back in early 2013, Ricoh first showed a prototype of one of the most unusual digital cameras we've ever seen, featuring twin fisheye lenses facing in opposite directions. The idea of that camera, which six months later hit retail as the Ricoh Theta, was that it would capture a full 360-degree spherical panorama in a...
Ricoh's $400 Theta is an innovative gadget that allows you to capture 360° spherical panoramas with just a single click of a button. Now Ricoh has teamed up with Google to allow you to actually do something with those panoramas—put them up on Google Maps and Google+.
This new feature comes through Ricoh making its...
When Ricoh started shipping its unusual, dual-lensed Theta 360° panoramic camera in mid-October, there was both good and bad news, depending on which smart device platform you use.
The good news was that iOS users could Wi-Fi pair their Theta camera with their iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch from day one, enabling...