...and there's also this: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0048564628/limited-edition-pentax-k-3-ii-to-commemorate-80-years-of-ricoh
Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, at 09:54 AM, Stanley Halpin wrote: > I know this one won’t get the same level of excitement as the K-1, but > still… > > The Ricoh WG-M2 Action Camera is available for pre-order from B&H (and > presumably the outlets) @ $299.95. > Well under $300 as they say in the marketing world. > > I bought the WG-M1 on a whim last fall when it was selling for a > close-out price of $99. > I don’t have, have never even held onto, a GoPro, but these WG-Mx seem to > be an attempt to fit into the GoPro niche. Small, light weight, durable, > waterproof, capable of video or stills or time lapse. When we went > through the Panama Canal last fall I had one strapped to the balcony > railing, got a nice time lapse showing us going through the first set of > locks. > > There are many strange design bugs, or features, on the WG-M1, it will be > interesting to see if they make changes for the new version. E.g., the > camera always without fail will be in video mode when the power is turned > on. So you always have to fiddle with the menu to get it into still mode > i=f that is what you want. There is similarly no memory for previous > setting for still or video mode with respect to angle of view (zoom > level) or much of anything else. (The zoom options are Wide, Really Wide, > REALLY REALLY Wide.) So you turn it on, do a menu dance to set it up, > shoot a frame or two. Slip it into your pocket, walk a few feet, see > another photo op, do the whole process again. Very weird. Hopefully the > WG-M2 comes with more usable interface. > > stan > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
