The new half-frame 35mm analog camera shoots 72 pictures ... That’s what Pentax seems to be saying with its new Pentax 17, a film camera that takes half-size pictures and looks about as timeless ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much like the Kodak Ektar H35 and other film cameras, the Pentax 17 uses 35mm film which is usually easy to procure. I used Kodak Gold 200 35mm film, a roll (36 exposures) of which cost me $11 / £11.

The first new film camera for two decades, the Pentax 17 offers a bold new way into ... as after a roll is shot the 35mm film needs to be rewound into the cassette. The release button for this ...

We haven’t seen a major brand release an analog film camera in literal decades. The clock reset this year. The Pentax 17 is a new half-frame 35mm film camera that captures vertically oriented photos ...

Ben Keough/NYT Wirecutter It gives you twice as many shots per roll as most film cameras. Since it’s a half-frame camera—capable of capturing two vertical images per 35mm frame—the Pentax 17 ...

But Pentax thinks that there is still a place for the tactile ... which doubles the number of pictures that can be taken on each roll of 35mm film). “Half-format cameras were big in the 1960s and ...

But the Pentax 17 also has a surprising amount ... The camera can take 72 photos per roll of film — regular 35mm film cameras get 36 shots. The half-frame means each photo has slightly less ...

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