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When I gave a slightly cynical heads-up regarding the new film camera from Pentax, I were wrong.
I thought we might never see it, and like some cameras from some makers, it would be anther holy grail in silver and black - to be desired and quested for, but never actually to be seen.
Well, I were wrong. There it was at the PhotoLive Expo 2024 at the Novotel Langley. Perched primly on top of an very understated Pentax box, ready for photographers who want to shoot 72 APS-C-sized shots for each roll of film.
Ready to demand that you zone focus, wind on your own film ( and eventually rewind it…), let it decide your exposure or tell it what to do, use the built-in flash or shoot on a tripod with a cable release.
In short - to be a real camera without having to fake-retro it. The errors you make until you re-learn film photography will be smaller ones than the last time you had a Pentax - because you’ve been shooing digital long enough to not need to look at the screen every shot. Right? Right…?
Am I blushing or is it hot in here?
Never mind. If you need to you can always stare at the film box end in the little holder at the back of the camera. And let your relatives at the family party do so too when they demand to see the picture straight away.
You do realise something don’t you - after years of people asking whether your retro silver digital is a film camera, they are now going to ask you if your new Pentax is digital. Quite what you say is up to you, but I would use the opportunity to have a little fun with them.
Book is open as to when the cameras will be brought out in colour. Apple have done it with computers…
Here are some test shots with the new Pentax 17 taken by one of our staff members, Isabelle Haubrich Photography:
More information about the Pentax 17.
Text by Richard Stein
