As soon as it launched, the Pentax 17 – the first new high-end film camera from a major manufacturer ... the company says "it is still too early to say if the product will be a long-term success ...

But still, it offers a unique experience (as well as a new warranty and first-party repairs). This is the first camera from Pentax’s film project it announced back in 2022, when it set out to ...

Ben Keough/NYT Wirecutter It gives you twice as many shots per roll as most film cameras ... finger in a shot. Pentax warned us of this hazard during our briefing, and I still ended up with ...

Is it still one of the best cameras today? Read my full Pentax 17 review to find out ... giving you twice the shots from a single roll of film versus a full frame camera — that means there ...

Film photography has seen a resurgence in the past few years, enough so that most of my friends who are into photography also have film cameras. Pentax ... the lens cap is still on, a more ...

But Pentax thinks that there is still a place for the tactile pleasures of ... which doubles the number of pictures that can be taken on each roll of 35mm film). “Half-format cameras were big in the ...

The clock reset this year. The Pentax 17 is a new half-frame 35mm film camera that captures vertically oriented photos that are 17mm (wide) x 24mm (tall). This allows it to capture twice as many ...

This is the new Pentax 17. For the past decade or so, film cameras have all but vanished, leaving only plasticky novelties and ‘disposable’ point-and-shoot models on the market. Pentax, a century-old ...

The camera can take 72 photos per roll of film ... is available new or used. The Pentax K1000 is the film camera for learning photography. It was, and often still is, the camera loaned to ...

To the left of the top plate we have the film rewind crank, as after a roll ... camera still. The on/off switch is around this button, probably the most efficient place for it to be. Here Pentax ...

Film is expensive – a roll costs the best part ... This is what Pentax is seeking to capitalise on with the 17. It’s not a cheap camera, retailing at $849. But does it deliver the goods ...