The Pentax 17 is fitted with a 25mm fixed-focus lens with a 37mm equivalent field of view. It doesn’t feature autofocus like ...
not least because it’s the first film camera to bear the Pentax name for over two decades. For a start, it’s a ‘half-frame’ 35mm film camera, using standard 35mm film canister but splitting each frame ...
Pentax ended a more than two decade hiatus ... that resulted in a camera that feels both old and new. The camera uses 35mm ...
I certainly didn't expect to be reviewing a film camera in 2024, but in hindsight, it was almost inevitable. Film photography has seen a resurgence in the past few years, enough so that most of my ...
Such has been the switch from film to digital, that the new film camera is a rarity. Pentax think there may be an opening in the older format though, as they’ve announced in the videos below the ...
Pentax has attempted to keep film costs low but producing a half frame camera. This means when it comes to exposures, you get double for your money. A standard 35mm frame is split in half.
Digital cameras like telecentric lenses; lenses where the light rays exiting are as parallel as possible. Lenses such as the 20-35mm FA originate from the film era ... on a Pentax K-1 using ...
The Pentax 17 was the first Pentax-branded film camera in nearly two decades (Pic:) Update: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the Pentax Film Project was ...