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 ...

The fixed 35mm f/2.8 lens is slightly ... retro styling that Rollei fans love. This 35m film camera is a different prospect ...

Pentax hasn't ruled out a return to ... it's that there's a voracious appetite for new film cameras. Unlike the world of 35mm ...

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 ...

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 ...

So, you would hold this camera horizontally – which is ... which is the format of the recent Pentax 17: it uses 35mm film but takes two half-sized vertical pictures in the space of every single ...

"The smc PENTAX-FA 35mm F2 AL wide-angle lens weighs a mere 214g. Despite its compact size, it incorporates a high-quality aspherical lens element to effectively compensate for spherical ...

Ricoh Imaging Co.'s Takeo Suzuki, who led the project to develop the Pentax 17, the company's first film camera in 21 years, is seen in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2024. (Mainichi/Ayane Matsuyama ...