frame-it Posted June 20, 2023 Share #1 Posted June 20, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) nice to know they're developing new film cameras 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 20, 2023 Posted June 20, 2023 Hi frame-it, Take a look here Pentax Film Camera. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
tedd Posted June 20, 2023 Share #2 Posted June 20, 2023 Pentax have become a really interesting company the last few years. The GR, sticking with SLR designs, a monochrome.. they are starting to give me 'Leica of the East' vibes. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim B Posted July 3, 2023 Share #3 Posted July 3, 2023 I just got a brand new old stock 645nii Still New works great! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kivis Posted July 14, 2023 Share #4 Posted July 14, 2023 I love the Pentax vibe but sometimes they do not follow up on their said plans. I hope they do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted July 14, 2023 Share #5 Posted July 14, 2023 Wow! A film camera with a lever wind film advance mechanism!! Amazing!!!! (maybe he should buy a Ricoh 500 G and ask his team to copy that?). I wonder what else will be unique about this new camera? Maybe glass elements for a lens instead of just a pinhole? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB_tx Posted July 15, 2023 Share #6 Posted July 15, 2023 Back in the 1950s when Asahi Optical Company developed the cameras that were branded Pentax it was a very innovative brand, and a major [layer in the market. I think they'd be better off to resurrect one of the successful old designs. They should pay attention to what Leica did with the new M6. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 15, 2023 Share #7 Posted July 15, 2023 Advertisement (gone after registration) He needs a lot. of words to say basically nothing. Well, yes, a lever wound compact. Now I might have seen one of those before. 🤔 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frame-it Posted July 16, 2023 Author Share #8 Posted July 16, 2023 On 6/20/2023 at 6:30 PM, tedd said: Pentax have become a really interesting company the last few years. The GR, sticking with SLR designs, a monochrome.. they are starting to give me 'Leica of the East' vibes. https://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/eventreport/1513256.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedd Posted July 16, 2023 Share #9 Posted July 16, 2023 On 7/15/2023 at 9:01 AM, earleygallery said: Wow! A film camera with a lever wind film advance mechanism!! Amazing!!!! (maybe he should buy a Ricoh 500 G and ask his team to copy that?). I wonder what else will be unique about this new camera? Maybe glass elements for a lens instead of just a pinhole? Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borna Posted July 18, 2023 Share #10 Posted July 18, 2023 On 7/14/2023 at 11:19 PM, kivis said: I love the Pentax vibe but sometimes they do not follow up on their said plans. I hope they do. I think they are too deep in for just not follow up on their plans for the film cameras. The reception for this has been big within the analog community. Looking forward to see this, and hopefully I will buy one. It seems that they will first push out an P&S camera, then make further sizes, DSLR etc. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted September 30, 2023 Share #11 Posted September 30, 2023 A few days from the Salon de la Photo at Paris, fautpaspousserlesiso.com a talk show dedicated to photography and video, interviewed many players in the photo market, including Yazid Belmadi, head of press relations and sales promotion at Ricoh Imaging France. They published the following podcast Thursday September 28th : https://www.fautpaspousserlesiso.com/episode-2-le-marche-de-la-photo-en-2023/ Below is the translated transcript of Yazid Belmadi's statement (which begins around 1h23min): "We announced last December the launch of a project on film cameras. Of course, the project is still relevant. It will see the light of day in spring 2024 with the arrival of two products. Regarding the type of film camera that will be released next spring, it would be, in a first draft, two compacts, high-end compacts by technical characteristics but not in terms of price. They will be relatively affordable. It will be a first draft, two compacts, followed by reflex cameras, of course, which is still the cornerstone of this type of camera. Since we announced this project in December 2022, we have had a lot of feedback from resellers, potential consumers who have told us of their impatience to see these products arrive. There is apparently a very high demand for film cameras. Our strategy for quite a few years has been to work with very very very nested products, which we do quite well. To do this, the management in Japan is based on surveys of Japanese consumers, consumers of the brand of course but also beyond. Just like the GR range, the project to release film cameras is the result of a very extensive consultation with many photo actors and in particular Japanese consumers since, from experience, we know that it works rather well when we make products at the request of consumers, the first concerned." 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted September 30, 2023 Share #12 Posted September 30, 2023 Therefor Pentax film cameras are confirmed for a release next spring 2024 3 cameras at least : two high end compact and one SLR 😍 It is awesome Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted September 30, 2023 Share #13 Posted September 30, 2023 Pentax still sell 7 lenses with aperture ring and body driven AF compatible with old film SLR. They will be an asset for future SLR. Three FA Limited lenses : https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/lens/k/wide/hdpentax-fa-31/ https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/lens/k/standard/hdpentax-fa-43/ https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/lens/k/telephoto/hdpentax-fa-77/ Four standard FA lenses : https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/lens/k/wide/hdpentax-fa-35/ https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/lens/k/standard/hdpentax-fa-50/ https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/lens/k/standard/smcpentax-fa50-classic/ https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/lens/k/macro/smcpentax-dfa-macro-50/ 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted September 30, 2023 Share #14 Posted September 30, 2023 1 hour ago, nicci78 said: Just like the GR range, the project to release film cameras is the result of a very extensive consultation with many photo actors and in particular Japanese consumers since, from experience, we know that it works rather well when we make products at the request of consumers, the first concerned." An interesting observation, and I hope Fuji took note given they regularly cause fainting fits among film users. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted September 30, 2023 Share #15 Posted September 30, 2023 Not so sure. Looks like Japanese manufacturers make a kind of understanding not to really compete against each other. About Monochrome ? There was enough for Leica then for Pentax. Is there enough for Fuji too ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anbaric Posted October 1, 2023 Share #16 Posted October 1, 2023 22 hours ago, nicci78 said: Not so sure. Looks like Japanese manufacturers make a kind of understanding not to really compete against each other. About Monochrome ? There was enough for Leica then for Pentax. Is there enough for Fuji too ? For film, I think, rather than cameras. They have discontinued several well-loved films, stopped making colour film altogether for a while (supposedly due to supply chain issues), and were selling generically rebadged Kodak colour film instead of their own emulsions. Acros is still a distinct product, but it's manufactured under contract in the UK by Harman (Ilford). It would be a shame if we see new film cameras from one of the great Japanese names, while losing the last of the unique films made by their equally illustrious compatriots. If anyone at Fuji has the same enthusiam for film that TKO the Pentax guy clearly does, they're not exactly making it obvious. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frame-it Posted December 24, 2023 Author Share #17 Posted December 24, 2023 interesting, a Toyota Xmas ad, featuring a Pentax Film camera 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB_tx Posted December 24, 2023 Share #18 Posted December 24, 2023 My first interchangeable lens camera was a Pentax H1a in 1965. Since this thread just popped up again, interestingly I had just loaded a roll of film in it yesterday, as it still seems to be working fine and I thought I'd use it like I used to: no light meter, just estimate exposure and have fun. I doubt if any new camera they make will have as long a useful life. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.noctilux Posted December 24, 2023 Share #19 Posted December 24, 2023 I saw these pictures, here ... Leica M5 ? Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! with 40cm lens ! Mx ? or Asahi Pentax ? 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! with 40cm lens ! Mx ? or Asahi Pentax ? ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/378545-pentax-film-camera/?do=findComment&comment=4959129'>More sharing options...
roydonian Posted December 24, 2023 Share #20 Posted December 24, 2023 When the shutter of one of my Leicas failed while I was covering an international air show some two decades ago, I told a fellow editor that the camera needed a CLA. What was a CLA?, he asked. His response to my explanation was to say that he'd bought a Pentax SLR as a young man, and it was still working OK many decades later, and had never needed to be serviced. He also pointed out that the 'office Nikon' had been used (and probably abused) by many staff journalists over the years, and it too was still going strong. Perhaps I should have chosen a more reliable brand of camera, he suggested. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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