The company was at the heart of Japanese film camera innovation from the 1950s, introducing trailblazers like the Pentax Spotmatic in 1960, which offered TTL (through-the-lens) ...

The 50-year-old Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (Image credit: Future) Ricoh has confirmed that it’s working on a new Pentax compact film camera, with more models on the horizon, as part of its Film ...

The company would later captivate the world with their Spotmatic series of cameras with a built-in spot meter for automatic exposures. These meters eventually found their ways into rangefinder cameras ...