Recently, Ricoh Imaging took us – and Leica – by surprise. While Leica announced the black-and-white-only M11 Monochrom, Ricoh launched the Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome hours before, undercutting it as well with a price some $7000 lower. Even Fujifilm would have been a more likely candidate for a monochrome edition of one of its existing models, given the company’s proclivity for playing with color filters and film simulations (they’re a major player in the color filter space to
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