{"id":171078,"date":"2023-10-10T21:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=171078"},"modified":"2023-10-18T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:54:11","slug":"pentax-will-launch-two-high-end-film-compacts-in-the-spring-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/photo\/pentax-will-launch-two-high-end-film-compacts-in-the-spring-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentax will launch two high-end film compacts in the spring of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview on the eve of the opening of the Salon de la Photo in Paris,\u00a0<strong>Ricoh Imaging Europe<\/strong>\u00a0representative Yazid Belmadi\u00a0confirmed\u00a0that the company will release two new \u201cbudget\u201d compact film cameras in the spring of 2024:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cLast December we\u00a0announced\u00a0the launch of film camera development.\u00a0Of course, the project is still under development.\u00a0They will be presented in the spring of 2024.\u00a0As for the type of future film camera, it should be two high-end compact cameras in terms of technical characteristics, but not in terms of price.\u00a0They will be relatively affordable.\u00a0The first step will be two compact film cameras, followed, of course, by DSLRs, which are the cornerstone of this type of camera.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pentax will launch two high-end film compacts in the spring of 2024.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/108_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"517\" \/><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Since this project was announced, we have received a lot of feedback from resellers and potential consumers who have told us how excited they are to see these products available.\u00a0There appears to be quite a bit of interest in film cameras.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Our strategy for several years now has been to work with very, very, very niche products, and that has suited us very well.\u00a0To do this, the management relies on surveys of Japanese users of the brand, but not only among them<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As with the GR series, the film camera project is the result of extensive consultation with a number of players in the photo industry, especially consumers in Japan.\u00a0And this experience has shown us that when you produce in response to consumer demand, it works quite well.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview on the eve of the opening of the Salon de la Photo in Paris,\u00a0Ricoh Imaging Europe\u00a0representative Yazid Belmadi\u00a0confirmed\u00a0that the company will release two new \u201cbudget\u201d compact film cameras in the spring of 2024: \u201cLast December we\u00a0announced\u00a0the launch of film camera development.\u00a0Of course, the project is still under development.\u00a0They will be presented [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/photo\/pentax-will-launch-two-high-end-film-compacts-in-the-spring-of-2024\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":171079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-171078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-photo","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}