As an Asahi Pentax employee in Hong Kong in early 70’s of the last century, I feel extremely excited of how an important photographic history has been recreated. Thanks to everybody involved to make it a reality!
I bought an unused Nikon F3. Splendid but I'm afraid to think that one day your electronics will die. What will I do then? Will there be more F3 without in good condition? I don't know, but at least we know that there will be new Pentax. That relieves me and excites me. Thank you, Pentax. I just hope you make a solid product, well built, reliable and with good materials.
I just found an article leading me to this video. Thank you, Pentax for shedding light on those who are fond of film photography. Hope to see another project update soon 👍
I hope Pentax reads the comments. THANK YOU for doing this! I will be purchasing this camera the moment it comes out. I love the idea of a manual film advance because it keeps us connected to the act of taking a picture. I hope it has manual focus as well, perhaps with a mechanism similar to the Olympus XA or even a Leica M. I would choose a 35mm focal length which is a good compromise that's not too wide or too long and allows for lots of depth of field, and I would allow for space outside the frame lines to aid in composition. The lens should have a distance meter with depth of field lines. I would love a pancake-style f/2.8 lens with a low profile to keep the camera compact. For the material, metal would be incredible but a high quality dense plastic would be great too. Well done Pentax! I hope your new film camera is a huge success.
Been fixing and restoring Pentax film cameras for years, my first thoughts are what Materials they are using, hope they are using metal for gears and levers, got box loads Of cameras I cannot get replacement plastic gearing for, from many manufacturers. Otherwise its great to see a company like Pentax taking on the challenge.
I am so excited about this development! I still shoot on film both 35 and 120. I have to use old cameras and many keep breaking. To own a new, modern film photography camera from my favourite brand is something I will enjoy greatly! When will the camera come out?
Very nice video. Prototypes(?) looked nice too. I am really excited too. You are really amazing Pentax! No one else would ever thought about starting such project.🙇♂
Since as kid into 84, i am drawn to Film (35mm). I love the rendering, the various Films, both into b&w or -color sometimes...it's the haptics, the slow approach, -everything....long life Film ! Go on, Pentax ! #filmisnotdead
Bravo Pentax. Is it realistic!? Yes! Where I hand in my c-41 Color negative films, develop and scan, in Toronto. One has to see the line-up each morning! Nearly all other labs are gone! Downtown Camera Toronto, has expanded it's services! Film has become more expensive, but not ouf reach, in money. Anyway most film shooters, myself, now an amateur, shoot way less than digital. Even as a pro, I went to medium format, beacause of short rolls. 10, 12, 15 exposures per 120 roll.I still have my original Asahi Spotmatics and Takumar lenses. I did use Nikon, Canon A-series, Minolta when digital arrived and killed the values of film camera! I carried on! It was same as Colour became main way in Weddings years go, with other paid work. I worked simply as always, Black and White 35mm film. Looking forward! The Pentax Monochrome DSLR, a brave huge step. I can't wait to use it. I also LOVE Digital. It's all good.
My very first SLR back in 1968. A really great camera with exceptional optics, a Spotmatic and Super Takumar. I was first introduced to this system in 1963 at my school by a USMC veteran who was also a student. I wish I still had it, it was an excellent camera. I wish they could bring it back.
No matter how bad it may be or how expensive it becomes, I plan to acquire one and encourage all my film photographer friends to give it a try. It's more than just a product; it's a message to camera manufacturers and IT overlords. Photography has always been an art, where technology held the least significance in its history. Social events and cultural phenomena have played much larger roles. It's WWII, not the Leica, that holds significance. It's the commercial portraits, not the Hasselblad. When technology becomes the primary driving force behind any culture, art, or sport, that particular form of human activity deserves to fade away.
I hope the first modern take on this project inspires future projects. I was disappointed to hear the latest film-camera they are producing is a fixed lens :(
Make it XPan format, Pentax. There is a shortage of those cameras. No point of making a standard 24x36mm there are tons of those cameras used ,working, available.
Copact cameras are not my cup of tea, but a resonable choice would be a Ricoh GR with 8ms shutter lag (1) , with film advance lever (2), and a Pentax 39 f1.7 (3) lens, or 43 f1.7-1.9, or 40 f 1.7 or 40 f2.8 to be more resonable... (1) They say that will be compact with fixed lens and some parts from other cameras. (2) again not my cup of tea but they say that will have a film advance lever. I use old cameras with film advance lever, like Pentax K2, but for a new camera this will not be my choice. (3) GR used mostly 28mm lenses, but 28mm will not be my choice for just one lens, altrough I have a few 28mm K mount lenses in my colection. 28mm on FF35 show 3 types of geometric distortion: 1. Perspective distortion is related to distance , but a wide lens can deceive some people to use it more up close. For natural perspective we need 5 volumetric diagonals of the subject, so like 1.5m for the adult human head. Closer then that the head is rendered jarred, big nose , hideous face, and from 1.5m can be to small. 2. Barrel distortion. 3. Droplet distortion that is the correction of barrel distortion, so tough luck..., and droplet distortion is responsible for horrific grotesque distortion of the human heads... Some will prefer a 30 to 31 mm lens, some 28, some 35, 24, 40, 55, 58, 85, 90, etc... 39mm is the widest I would consider for just one lens.
I wish they create point-and-shoot titanium body with glass lens and in small size like rollei35 s ,I feel like we need a new 35mm camera in small size and small rechargeable batteries that will be amazing , if they create a new SLR it will be more heavy of course they will use there DSLR battery in it and they will use new lenses so that will be extra weight
I think your marketing approach is a bit flawed. This is the second video where you've essentially focused on how hard the work is going to be and the uncertainty of the project. It's not inspiring even for a Pentax user like me.
Gentlemen, you have lost the digital camera market thanks to your marketers. " Don't reinvent the wheel". Resume production of Pentax cameras by К 1000, LX, 67 II. Great, reliable, beautiful cameras.
Возродите камеру наподибе Pentax LX и более бюджетную как МЕ или P50. Перевыпустите для новых камер рару тройку штатных объективов, только с ручной фокусировкой! И люди те кто хотел попробовать плёнку будут покупать эти камеры! Но создавать сейчас фотокамеру без сменных объективов это выброшенные деньги и сылы! Пентакс всегда покупали или оставались на этой системе из-за совместимости,
Are you going for the SV look? If going retro, please do. That said, as fond as I am of film the benefits are largely lost on small formats imo, and I seriously question the viability of a 35mm SLR in today's market where full frame digital is effectively the norm, plus there’s so many vintage bodies still available for a pittance. 120 might offer the best overall balance and is clearly something Pentax has long had a foot in. Personally I feel film should be reserved for large format. Unfortunately for those like me, film availability leaves much to be desired. Of course it could be worse…
Yes but needing services and parts. My SP's no longer have working meters! OK my Leica Meter was toast (finished) a few years after purchase.. The Pentax was way better. The S1a and H1a not same quality as Spotmatics! Less reliable!
The market for 35mm film helps sustain large format. Without the influx of new (or returning) 35mm film customers, there will be fewer people taking up large format. Plus, there are some things that are hard to do with medium and large format. Macro, for example. I welcome the 35mm resurgence.
It's a FILM camera. If you want to modernize, go digital😉 Jokes aside, the three options for film advance are motor-driven, dial and lever. There are a plethora of cheap dial advance new film cameras already (Ilford, lomography, Kodak). Motor-driven is an option but doesn't give a user experience much different from digital. Lever-action will be initially more expensive but, as stated in another video, Ricoh can use the same mechanism when they start developing an SLR so cheaper in the long run. Time will tell if this design decision was the correct one.
Hand winding the film advance and shutter is so satisfying. I love it. And the fact that I can't fire off a dozen frames rapid-fire forces me to be more careful and deliberate. I'm not just gambling by casting a wide net and seeing what I drag in. I'm forced to choose precisely which image I'm going to make. And it also means that the film advance doesn't need a battery. And the battery will last a lot longer. There's nothing worse than finding the perfect composition, about to slip away, and discovering that your battery has died. Hopefully, they'll design it to revert to a default shutter speed (e.g. 1/125) when the battery fails. If you want a camera that does all of the work for you, buy a mirrorless digital.
As an Asahi Pentax employee in Hong Kong in early 70’s of the last century, I feel extremely excited of how an important photographic history has been recreated. Thanks to everybody involved to make it a reality!
As long as there's film available, I will always use my Pentax 35mm manual bodies and lenses. This proyect is amazing!
i own many pentax analog and digital cameras and absolutely love them. ❤ but this will probably be the first camera i will buy new in the store!
お疲れ様です。レトロなフィルムカメラ好きなものです。
新たにフィルムカメラを開発して下さること心より感謝いたします。
レンズは富岡光学のレンズを復刻させてほしいです。
これからもフィルムプロジェクトを応援していきます。
My full respect to you Pentax and wishing the best success definitely will be purchasing the new film camera, thank you Pentax 💞🏆
I bought an unused Nikon F3. Splendid but I'm afraid to think that one day your electronics will die. What will I do then? Will there be more F3 without in good condition? I don't know, but at least we know that there will be new Pentax. That relieves me and excites me. Thank you, Pentax. I just hope you make a solid product, well built, reliable and with good materials.
As a film shooter, I am very excited to see a new film camera designed in the 21st Century, by Pentax! Will be waiting for it!
I just found an article leading me to this video. Thank you, Pentax for shedding light on those who are fond of film photography. Hope to see another project update soon 👍
I hope Pentax reads the comments. THANK YOU for doing this! I will be purchasing this camera the moment it comes out. I love the idea of a manual film advance because it keeps us connected to the act of taking a picture. I hope it has manual focus as well, perhaps with a mechanism similar to the Olympus XA or even a Leica M. I would choose a 35mm focal length which is a good compromise that's not too wide or too long and allows for lots of depth of field, and I would allow for space outside the frame lines to aid in composition. The lens should have a distance meter with depth of field lines. I would love a pancake-style f/2.8 lens with a low profile to keep the camera compact. For the material, metal would be incredible but a high quality dense plastic would be great too. Well done Pentax! I hope your new film camera is a huge success.
yeah, good idea: i love my da 40mm 2.8 pancake for its amazing tiny size plus amazing image quality!
A new Pentax film camera,in 2023？Amazing!
Wow! Being "Excited" is an understatement for the anticipation of the new film camera models. Arigatō and kind Regards from Germany!
I own 4 Pentax film cameras and two digital, not counting the Ricoh GR. I’m excited to see what comes out of this.
リコー／ペンタさんのこのプロジェクト、本当に楽しみです。新たに生まれる日本のフィルムカメラ…発売されたら絶対に買います📷。初めて手にしたカメラもペンタなので☺
Been fixing and restoring Pentax film cameras for years, my first thoughts are what
Materials they are using, hope they are using metal for gears and levers, got box loads
Of cameras I cannot get replacement plastic gearing for, from many manufacturers.
Otherwise its great to see a company like Pentax taking on the challenge.
Such a great initiative! Go Pentax! 🎉🏆📷
I am so excited about this development! I still shoot on film both 35 and 120. I have to use old cameras and many keep breaking. To own a new, modern film photography camera from my favourite brand is something I will enjoy greatly! When will the camera come out?
We do need more. We need new 645s and 67s.
Very nice video. Prototypes(?) looked nice too. I am really excited too. You are really amazing Pentax! No one else would ever thought about starting such project.🙇♂
Wow they was looking over an Exakta .. I own 3 different models . My two favorite 35 mm Cameras I own are my Pentax Spotmatics and my Exakta's :).
Much respect for what you are doing. I also appreciate that you are looking to your past for the design direction of your future cameras.
What ever path you choose , good wishes and great success to you all at Pentax ❤.
It is very good that Pentax began this project. Film will come back.
Since as kid into 84, i am drawn to Film (35mm). I love the rendering, the various Films, both into b&w or -color sometimes...it's the haptics, the slow approach, -everything....long life Film ! Go on, Pentax !
#filmisnotdead
とても楽しみです
Bravo Pentax. Is it realistic!? Yes! Where I hand in my c-41 Color negative films, develop and scan, in Toronto. One has to see the line-up each morning! Nearly all other labs are gone! Downtown Camera Toronto, has expanded it's services! Film has become more expensive, but not ouf reach, in money. Anyway most film shooters, myself, now an amateur, shoot way less than digital. Even as a pro, I went to medium format, beacause of short rolls. 10, 12, 15 exposures per 120 roll.I still have my original Asahi Spotmatics and Takumar lenses. I did use Nikon, Canon A-series, Minolta when digital arrived and killed the values of film camera! I carried on!
It was same as Colour became main way in Weddings years go, with other paid work. I worked simply as always, Black and White 35mm film. Looking forward! The Pentax Monochrome DSLR, a brave huge step. I can't wait to use it. I also LOVE Digital. It's all good.
The excitement of photographer Shiori Iwakura in this video is palpable. Many viewers will share this feeling about the new film cameras from Pentax.
I'm excited also😊❤
お願いだから、日常遣いできる価格帯のフィルムも製造してほしい…フィルムカメラも素敵だけど、フィルムが高いと使えない。大変なのは想像に及びません、本当に応援しています！
Thank you and congratulations for "Film Project” Start!🚀
I'm really looking forward to it.
I'm waiting it📸
I coulnd't get enough from my Pentax ME. Looking forward to the new line. I'll be one of the first buyer
Great to see a new film camera coming. Please add a depth of field preview!!
My very first SLR back in 1968. A really great camera with exceptional optics, a Spotmatic and Super Takumar. I was first introduced to this system in 1963 at my school by a USMC veteran who was also a student. I wish I still had it, it was an excellent camera. I wish they could bring it back.
This is excellent news! Bravo! I wish you good luck in your project!
楽しみ〜！😃
Thank you for your work and for the courage it took to start doing it
I hope they make a really solid mechanical SLR, with an exchangeable viewfinder. It is so exiting with a new film camera!
Amazing project that i wish the greatest success to.
Nothing but love. ❤
You guys are really on to something. If you execute, market and price this well.....
I am using now Pentax KX 😊
最後のシャッター音、いいですね。しびれます。
Take my money!
PENT❤X
We follow you
We wait for your futurs Dreams Kameras.
We are ready
갖고싶네요! 기대합니다!!
No matter how bad it may be or how expensive it becomes, I plan to acquire one and encourage all my film photographer friends to give it a try. It's more than just a product; it's a message to camera manufacturers and IT overlords. Photography has always been an art, where technology held the least significance in its history. Social events and cultural phenomena have played much larger roles. It's WWII, not the Leica, that holds significance. It's the commercial portraits, not the Hasselblad. When technology becomes the primary driving force behind any culture, art, or sport, that particular form of human activity deserves to fade away.
Please don’t stop, Pentax!
Here in NYC we are an Irish Catholic Pentax family.❤
As long as they make film - I will continue to shoot it 🎞
I have the 67 and the ME and i love this ❤
❤
昔々フイルムしかなかったころ、CM流れてましたね『カメラはワイドだよ、ペンタックスだよ！』・・・。そんでもって今でも写真はフイルムだと思っています，応援したい、がんばれ。
I hope the first modern take on this project inspires future projects. I was disappointed to hear the latest film-camera they are producing is a fixed lens :(
So, it's a SLR after all? Somebody explain please, is it a point and shoot with winder, or a SLR?
Last rumors I’ve read was an SLR style camera with manual winding and a fixed lens. Will buy it anyhow (if price isn’t too absurd)
Wow
Even for cameras from film era, I still prefer Pentax over Nikon (there is no need to mention Fujifilm, Canon and Fuji)
Pentax is weird… i like it
声がかわいい
❤❤❤
GR1 with stronger internals is all anyone wants.
Make it XPan format, Pentax. There is a shortage of those cameras. No point of making a standard 24x36mm there are tons of those cameras used ,working, available.
まずは一体型とのことなのでコンパクトカメラからなのでしょうが、少しでも情報欲しいですねー。今後に期待です！
Copact cameras are not my cup of tea, but a resonable choice would be a Ricoh GR with 8ms shutter lag (1) , with film advance lever (2), and a Pentax 39 f1.7 (3) lens, or 43 f1.7-1.9, or 40 f 1.7 or 40 f2.8 to be more resonable...
(1) They say that will be compact with fixed lens and some parts from other cameras.
(2) again not my cup of tea but they say that will have a film advance lever. I use old cameras with film advance lever, like Pentax K2, but for a new camera this will not be my choice.
(3) GR used mostly 28mm lenses, but 28mm will not be my choice for just one lens, altrough I have a few 28mm K mount lenses in my colection. 28mm on FF35 show 3 types of geometric distortion:
1. Perspective distortion is related to distance , but a wide lens can deceive some people to use it more up close. For natural perspective we need 5 volumetric diagonals of the subject, so like 1.5m for the adult human head. Closer then that the head is rendered jarred, big nose , hideous face, and from 1.5m can be to small.
2. Barrel distortion.
3. Droplet distortion that is the correction of barrel distortion, so tough luck..., and droplet distortion is responsible for horrific grotesque distortion of the human heads...
Some will prefer a 30 to 31 mm lens, some 28, some 35, 24, 40, 55, 58, 85, 90, etc... 39mm is the widest I would consider for just one lens.
I wish they create point-and-shoot titanium body with glass lens and in small size like rollei35 s ,I feel like we need a new 35mm camera in small size and small rechargeable batteries that will be amazing , if they create a new SLR it will be more heavy of course they will use there DSLR battery in it and they will use new lenses so that will be extra weight
Time for Fuji to wake up!
Eager to purchase a camera that isn't 3 shots away from breaking
Just give me an updated and improved GR1V and take my money!
新規にカメラ作ったところで、街のDPEサービスが壊滅的な状況。自家現像するにしてもフィルムや印画紙、現像処理に関係する薬品や機材もコストも時間も総合的に考えて新たに初めるには一般の写真愛好家にはハードルが高い。
極々少数のマニアのみの需要になるな。
I think your marketing approach is a bit flawed. This is the second video where you've essentially focused on how hard the work is going to be and the uncertainty of the project. It's not inspiring even for a Pentax user like me.
Gentlemen, you have lost the digital camera market thanks to your marketers. " Don't reinvent the wheel". Resume production of Pentax cameras by К 1000, LX, 67 II. Great, reliable, beautiful cameras.
Возродите камеру наподибе Pentax LX и более бюджетную как МЕ или P50. Перевыпустите для новых камер рару тройку штатных объективов, только с ручной фокусировкой! И люди те кто хотел попробовать плёнку будут покупать эти камеры! Но создавать сейчас фотокамеру без сменных объективов это выброшенные деньги и сылы! Пентакс всегда покупали или оставались на этой системе из-за совместимости,
Rather make film, you will sell a lot of it, cheap film is need it a lot more , than new camera.
Are you going for the SV look? If going retro, please do.
That said, as fond as I am of film the benefits are largely lost on small formats imo, and I seriously question the viability of a 35mm SLR in today's market where full frame digital is effectively the norm, plus there’s so many vintage bodies still available for a pittance. 120 might offer the best overall balance and is clearly something Pentax has long had a foot in.
Personally I feel film should be reserved for large format. Unfortunately for those like me, film availability leaves much to be desired. Of course it could be worse…
Yes but needing services and parts. My SP's no longer have working meters! OK my Leica Meter was toast (finished) a few years after purchase.. The Pentax was way better. The S1a and H1a not same quality as Spotmatics! Less reliable!
The market for 35mm film helps sustain large format.
Without the influx of new (or returning) 35mm film customers, there will be fewer people taking up large format.
Plus, there are some things that are hard to do with medium and large format. Macro, for example.
I welcome the 35mm resurgence.
プロは自分から写真家とは言わない
Hand winding of shutter is the pure idiocy for camera of 2023 year. Ricoh coudn't offer any modern technology, but parasitizes on stone age era.
It's a FILM camera. If you want to modernize, go digital😉
Jokes aside, the three options for film advance are motor-driven, dial and lever. There are a plethora of cheap dial advance new film cameras already (Ilford, lomography, Kodak). Motor-driven is an option but doesn't give a user experience much different from digital. Lever-action will be initially more expensive but, as stated in another video, Ricoh can use the same mechanism when they start developing an SLR so cheaper in the long run.
Time will tell if this design decision was the correct one.
Hand winding the film advance and shutter is so satisfying. I love it. And the fact that I can't fire off a dozen frames rapid-fire forces me to be more careful and deliberate. I'm not just gambling by casting a wide net and seeing what I drag in. I'm forced to choose precisely which image I'm going to make.
And it also means that the film advance doesn't need a battery. And the battery will last a lot longer. There's nothing worse than finding the perfect composition, about to slip away, and discovering that your battery has died.
Hopefully, they'll design it to revert to a default shutter speed (e.g. 1/125) when the battery fails.
If you want a camera that does all of the work for you, buy a mirrorless digital.
Having hundreds of options in the market, do you only look at what Ricoh does? What a waste of time!
I CANNOT WAIT.