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What a great review and showcase of this camera! I want one (now)! :) Great job to Pentax designers, engineers and everyone who worked on this!

In 1990, this camera would have cost $15...

My goodness, I own this camera and was about to release a video review because every other review out there was so ignorant of the purpose and practicality of it. There are even people that don't own the camera and went on "reviewing" about it. Yours is the first video i came across that is on point on what this camera actually is.

That b/w shot of the guy with the umbrella is FANTASTIC. My goodness. I can't wait for mine now.

This is really wonderful, thank you. I love your photos.

I don't want one. But if I would, I'll wait two or three years, I think It would cost used 50$ max.

I'm curious about how Pentax set the camera program. We all knew that: Aperture: F3.5 - F16 Shutter: 4s - 1/350s 1. When set to no flash P mode, when it is in low light, will it limit the shutter at 1/30s and warn you it is insufficient light, or it will go all the way down to 4s? 2. When set to Bokeh mode, using ISO 400 film under sunny day, will it shoot at F3.5 with 1/350s, or it will shoot at F16 with 1/350s? 3. When set to no flash Night mode, will it always prioritize shutter to 4s? or any range?

This is not acceptable. One must be blind to look at film photos nowadays. You want a film look, just apply countless filters to digital processing of RAW data. “ film community” I have not enough words of disapproval for your consumerist hedonistic approach to global resources. You want all this chemical dirt back? What for? For your wasteful pleasure of getting on good frame per film? Which you will the scan any way to treat in your PC? “Film community” you must be out of your minds .

Were the pictures of the lighthouse in Holland, MI? I love it there.

Great review! Just a quick question - how about the exposure and focusing lag? And once you have set the distance, does in go back to a neutral position or is it set until changed?

Thanks for the review! And congratulations on your new camera! I am also waiting for my Pentax 17. Will you please let me know what remote cable you are using for this camera? I am going to buy one for my Pentax 17 as well. Thanks !

This is the most exciting review of the Pentax 17 I've seen so far and it goes to show that if you take pictures with passion and love for the subject, this camera can really go a loong way. The photos in the video are really really good and show a wide variety of situations in which a hand-sized camera can really be an advantage, you can get away with so much but the quality seems to be there as well. I'm waiting for the scans of my first roll and I'm really excited to see the result. I shoot most of my work on medium format but I love having a small companion to have fun with, and what I look for in this small companion isn't the quality of my medium format cameras, but something just decent enough that if I feel like using the photographs, I can. I never carry my Mamiya 7 with me on the daily, unless I have something specific in mind or a project, so the opportunity to think differently with a small camera is great in that sense. I wouldn't ask someone in the street if I could take their portrait if I only had my iPhone on me for example (#millenials) but with the Pentax 17, I feel like I could. And it could be the beginning of a project that I might later pursue with another one of my cameras. It leaves the door open. So, to me it's not a serious camera, but it still allows to take photography seriously and seize the opportunities. I would love to know if Pentax will be able to repair the Pentax 17 if needed ? Hope they have the whole line figured out. Anyways, thanks for the video !

Someone needs to make a half frame medium format camera!

Need more side by side reviews of consumer grade stuff!!

I can definitely see its value as a street photography tool. We should support Pentax so that it can continue to produce new file cameras.

it is not for those who works in darkroom.

Great photos you took with it! Do you edit the scans in LR?

CR2 batteries I don't like very much. They die in winter and are expensive.

If you're a "glass half-empty" type, then it's a half-frame camera. If you're a "glass half-full" type, then it's a double-frame camera.

Honestly it's not a camera for me, I'm used to medium format quality and just 12 frames, 72 frames are even scary to me as it might take me years to finish a roll with my shooting style. But in any case I still want to take one, especially if the price stabilizes a little lower. Both because it's a really cool camera, and also because I'd like to support Pentax in this journey. And who knows, maybe if everything goes well we'll get a 67 III one day!

That's AOCo. Not AOG. Asahi Optical Company was the original manufacturer of Pentax cameras and Takumar lenses.

I started shooting in the 1970s, and I think this camera sounds great. I'm getting one. Thanks for the great review.

Excellent review, thank you. Is there any delay when you press the shutter? Others have mentioned it in passing.

Yo tengo la Pentax 😊110 y ahora quiero está camara nueva 😅

Hey that was the holland lighthouse. That’s right near my house! 😂

I am a huge Pentax fan!! My first 35mm cam was the ME Super back when they came out I was a teenager...I love it and still use it....I also love my Pentax Q and I realllllyyyyy want this new one!!! Thanks for the great review and your images showing all the various films you used were all great!

No problem with zone focus although I wish it had a meter/ft scale like my Minox 35 EL. And Aperture Priority over Program would have been great. But it’s such a beautifully designed camera, I’d really like to own it. Well done images, thanks.

Not for that price!

I love the concept, but would have preferred a more classic layout : aperture ring, speed dial, microprism focusing, PASM modes. Also, the viewfinder looks like it’s been replaced with one from a different model camera.

The best Pentax 17 review I?ve seen until now.....and let me say that lens is amazing....looking at the final results. Again, thanks for the complete and awesome review. -Luca

The best review of this camera. Thx

It is a film camera, but a piece of junk for the price. I would rather but a used old 40 or 50 year old film camera. They have accurate focusing, F-stops, Shutter speeds, and a selection of lenses. 500 dollars for this point and shoot camera that is half frame is robbery. I have been into photography since high school and have all the equipment that I purchase since then. I will use these cameras until they no longer work and then look for another used camera from that era. I will never buy this piece of junk because it does not have the controls that are needed to take a good picture. This is a toy.

It really brings it home seeing those waterfront photos, especially after spending the day yesterday in Holland and South Haven. Thank you for the down to earth review and rundown on this special camera.

Took tons of photos with my 35mm film cameras (including a Ricoh Auto Half) since 1977 up to the time I went mostly digital. This looks like an exciting camera to get.

One word, Marketing! Ridiculously high price, Wouldn't give a dollar for it.

Exactly what I was wondering. I have a number of Rebel film cameras and 3 working Elan models, all of them together would be less than the Contax T2. I may just sell off all my point and shoots, since they are so valuable at present.

hey, its Holland Michigan!

you should put the link of the blog in the video description

Are the pictures more grainy than other old film cameras ?

no thanks... novelty

That doesn't justify the price

I legit thought this was gonna be priced at $350 tops. But $500! Hard pass.

With $500, I’d get a second hand Yashica T4 or Olympus Muj Epic which is much better than this one.

dont like it aesthetically, i think it looks cheap and nasty.

wow this is amazing! I wish they would soon start their sales in India :)

VERY good pictures!

Great review! (Fantastic pics!) Excellent tip about just counting clicks from a default focus setting, that makes it quick and intuitive. I'm so excited to see this finally hit the market, I've been following the project from the beginning (see my interviews of TKO and the team on Petapixel and DP Reviw), and like you love TKO's passion. Design- and feature-wise, I think he knocked it out of the park, I find it one of the most visually appealing cameras in a long while. I don't think I've been this jazzed about a new camera release in the last 20 years. - And that's saying a lot, given that I ran Imaging Resource for all that time. I've never bought a point & shoot in my life, but couldn't get the credit card out of my wallet fast enough to order one of these. (I hope you guys are set up to handle the *flood* of processing you're going to get from this 🙂Congrats on the relationship with Ricoh US, it looks like they found a good partner. Whatever deal you did with them, it was super-smart; you're going to capture the processing business for the next generation of film shooters.)

everyone complains about the half frame picture quality but weren’t movies originally filmed using the same amount of film per frame?

Preordered yesterday. Anyone know the release date? Google is useless on that front.