I was going to say the same…didn’t know you were on KZitem as well! Love your work so looking forward to watching through your vids👍 I feel like most weren’t to keen on the half frame, but I just thought it’s a cool intro back in to film for Pentax. Definitely liking forward to getting my hands on the 17. Hopefully the success of it will encourage more in the way of 35mm and one day, medium format 🤞
@coreyward
3 ай бұрын
Funny to hear so many people less than thrilled about the Pentax 16 being a half-frame. The Olympus Pen FT is my favorite 35mm camera; it's half-frame and I love it for that. I appreciate having a narrower FoV with a rather small lens, and the portrait orientation is a nice change. I find I get plenty of detail for casual snaps out of the smaller frames with camera scanning, and with the price of film what it is these days, I don't find it's usually worth spending twice as much for the extra detail. The one real downside of half-frame is the aggressiveness of the grain, but if you're posting online with lower resolution (e.g., social media) it kind of works out okay.
@baudad
3 ай бұрын
If you’re just posting online why not just shoot with a digital camera?
@coreyward
3 ай бұрын
@@baudad I don't think anybody shoots film for any reason other than they enjoy it. Where it ends up being shared is irrelevant. It's not like you go get good at digital and then when you want to exhibit in a gallery you just switch to film. It's its own discipline. Besides, I don't know of any fully-manual, super compact SLRs with a focus patch, great optics, and great dynamic range for under $200 that aren't old film cameras. And there certainly aren't any that don't require batteries to operate.
@stevemccarty6384
3 ай бұрын
Five hundred bucks!
@baudad
3 ай бұрын
Half frame? Are they kidding? Have the people singing the praises of this camera ever printed half frame negs? Even with the best enlarging lenses half frame negs can’t be printed bigger than postcard. I think people who get this camera will be very disappointed with the resultant prints. If you are just going scan the negs, why not just shoot with a digital camera?
@valdiskrebs566
3 ай бұрын
Good question …
@TristanColgate
3 ай бұрын
I suspect you are talking about things of which you have no experience. Before going into the details, it's simple, you can, with 0 change in results, enlarge to half of whatever you would enlarge your full frame negs too, there's no magic here. I enlarge half frame using a 40mm schneider. For 100 iso lassic grain films, 8x10 is simply not a problem. I develop half frame in pyro staining devs which can help with coarser grain quite a bit, and am happy to half frame HP5 at 8x10. Sure, if you get a loupe out you are going to see the grain, but that's not what photography is about. If you want to stick 6x4 lab prints on your fridge, half frame is just fine, if you want to post scan to instagramt (2 megapixels), half frame is just fine And yeah, if you want to frame some 8x10 to hang on your wall, half frame is just fine. Half frame is identical in size to the classic academy format motion picture frame, which was the largest of the 35mm classically oriented formats. Those cinema screens are generally bigger than a post card.
@chivachava3899
3 ай бұрын
I agree with ArthurJS123 and I did scream. So many bored You-tubers that praise this piece of junk with no shutter speeds, zone focusing, no f-stops,and to top it all off made mostly of plastic. I would question anyone spending 500 dollars on what is a over glorified point an shoot camera. I can safely say that about 95% of people who talk about photography don't know anything.
@CraigFlemingStudio
3 ай бұрын
Haha great response… I thought I’d set it as not for children.. then again what do I know 😂
@TristanColgate
3 ай бұрын
It's nice that Pentax didn't skimp on the lens, it seems pretty solid from everything I've seen
@CraigFlemingStudio
Ай бұрын
Yeah it is pretty solid.. expensive but niche I guess
@WesleyVerhoevePhotography
3 ай бұрын
I didn't know you had a youtube! Good to see what you made with this bad boy. I loved shooting with it!
@CraigFlemingStudio
3 ай бұрын
Yeah, I can’t do all the usual you tube he you guys stuff though I’m too old for that nonsense it’s just authentic me… saying erm a lot and forgetting to look at the camera haha 😂
@ArthurJS123
3 ай бұрын
I am going to scream if I see one more video on this stupid camera.
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