Watch Out Fujifilm: Ricoh GRIV Coming First Quarter 2025 and Monochrome Version to Follow Later On
According to a source (thanks!!!), the popular Ricoh GRIII will get a successor pretty soon.
In fact, I have been told that the Ricoh GR IV (not to mistake with the Ricoh GR Digital IV) is set to be announced in the first quarter of 2025.
And possibly even more exciting than that, later on next year, Ricoh will also launch a monochrome version of it, which for now we will simply call the Ricoh GR IV m.
So again:
- Ricoh GR IV in first quarter 2025
- at some point in 2025 (after the GRIV), there will be also a monochrome Ricoh GR IV M.
Here on FujiRumors we have been long asking for a monochrome X100 camera (or X-Pro). Sadly Fujifilm has not delivered so far, but I am happy to see other brands giving more options in this regard, so we do not have to go for the super expensive Leica offering.
One more reason for Fujifilm not only to work hard to ship as many X100VI’s as possible before the new Ricoh GRIV drops, but also to finally consider to give us a monochrome camera before other brands eat up too much of that market niche.