For the past decade or so, film cameras have all but vanished, leaving only plasticky novelties and ‘disposable’ point-and-shoot models on the market. Pentax, a century-old Japanese manufacturer that ...

Astonishingly, despite the recent and unquenchable thirst for new 35mm cameras, a new film camera from Fujifilm is not "on ...

In the middle of the 2020s, film cameras are still selling.Tokyo-based Ricoh Imaging Co. released the Pentax 17 this July, ...

"The smc PENTAX-FA 35mm F2 AL wide-angle lens weighs a mere 214g. Despite its compact size, it incorporates a high-quality aspherical lens element to effectively compensate for spherical ...

Time from fully pressing shutter button to image capture. (All AF timing measured with a Pentax 35mm f/2.8 lens). Time to capture, after half-pressing and holding shutter button. The Pentax KP's ...

Digital cameras like telecentric lenses; lenses where the light rays exiting are as parallel as possible. Lenses such as the 20-35mm FA originate ... the lens was tested on a Pentax K-1 using ...

(All AF timing measured with a Pentax 35mm f/2.8 lens ... just JPEGs at 47 Large Best Quality JPEG frames before the camera slowed, though with RAW files buffer depths were much shallower ...

The launch of the Pentax 17, and the Kodak Ektar 35N ... the original Kodak didn’t make any half frame 35mm cameras as it was ...

Such has been the switch from film to digital, that the new film camera is a rarity. Pentax think there may be an opening in the older format though, as they’ve announced in the videos below the ...

Back in the late 1990s as the digital revolution overtook photography there were abortive attempts to develop a digital upgrade for 35mm film cameras. Imagine a film cartridge with attached sensor ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ricoh has issued firmware updates to two DSLR cameras, the Pentax K-3 III and Pentax K-3 III ...

Ricoh Imaging Co.'s Takeo Suzuki, who led the project to develop the Pentax 17, the company's first film camera in 21 years, is seen in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2024. (Mainichi/Ayane Matsuyama ...