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Pentax Hides Bland New Retro Digicams in Groovy Getup

Gadget Lab Jan 26 10

Pentax has announced the three new compact cameras that were hinted at yesterday, in all their retro-tastic glory. As expected, the I-10 (above) looks like a tiny 1960s SLR (reader msatlas pointed out on yesterday’s post that it looks like the Pentax 110 SLRs from decades past), and the H90 caomes in a rather fetching [...] Full story...

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