My take is this: Pentax has a history of zigging while others are zagging.The demographic of the majority of those getting into film today are people who have been raised knowing nothing but digital - those to whom film is something new and different. (It's the Dr. Seuss book Star-Bellied Sneetches.)
If Pentax is offering a half-frame in digital, it is because it will give them an advantage over the majority of existing film cameras: twice the number of shots on a roll of film. This obviously reduces the cost of film & developing by 50% for those using half-frames. Vintage half frames aren't going to have the ease of use of a new Pentax model - if prospective buyers even know that they exist. Also, many today are living in a hybrid world of film and digitizing. Who knows what other things Ricoh/Pentax are dreaming up to potentially meld those two worlds? A small market is effectively a large market if you have it almost entirely to yourself. Respectfully, Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 10:15 AM mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > On 03/03/2024 15:04 GMT Comcast <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > As a medium, film suffers in comparison to digital in that it is less > capable of low light reproduction and when pushed, image quality drops > precipitously. The solution has always been larger formats. My best film > work was generally on 6x7 or 6x6 film. Half a f a 35 mm frame has no appeal > whatsoever. Am I missing something here? > > Paul > > Not being (or wanting to be) part of the in crowd? > > > > > > On Mar 3, 2024, at 4:01 AM, Henk Terhell <hte...@outlook.com> wrote: > > > > > > More news on the Pentax film camera: > > > https://youtu.be/xqRQTOkhOJU?si=PssAjafiIoYaxbuW > > > > > > As for me, with a least a dozen film camera's accumulating dust on the > shelf is not fair to these to invest in a new one. > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
