Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2024-05-17 Thread Bob W PDML
Pentax seem to be running a teaser campaign for the new film camera. Turn the sound on to hear them plugging the manual film winding experience. To me it sounds like a wheel/dial rather than a crank for winding on. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7EgkWlI22f/?igsh=dnk2aXV3Ym9tMmJn > On 16 May 20

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-17 Thread John Francis
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 12:47:12PM +0200, Toine wrote: > even more surprising news: dpreview is still alive! That's good news! I had spotted that the archive wasn't going to disappear, but I wasn't expecting to see any further news items. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe s

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-17 Thread Toine
even more surprising news: dpreview is still alive! On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 12:37, Steve Cottrell wrote: > Another link: > > > https://www.dpreview.com/news/2093227531/pentax-s-first-film-camera-will-be-a-compact-with-a-fixed-lens-but-hints-a-film-slr-may-be-next > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discu

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-17 Thread Steve Cottrell
Another link: https://www.dpreview.com/news/2093227531/pentax-s-first-film-camera-will-be-a-compact-with-a-fixed-lens-but-hints-a-film-slr-may-be-next -- %(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 d

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Bill
Useless for you is not the same as useless. Just sayin. More clarity from you when you put your thoughts to words goes a long way to avoiding misunderstanding. As for the Corvette, they are all useless, depending on one's POV. As an aside, on the 2022 Vette, it's 11 hours of book time to change th

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Mark Roberts
I think a new, fixed-lens film camera is the sort of thing a lot of my students would go for. They'd never dream of entering the murky world of second-hand, 30-year-old film cameras. (Nor should they be.) -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.ne

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thisis all a bit silly. I commented that the camera is useless. That was my comment, and it applies to me alone. The Corvette metaphor was over the top. Enough of this. > On May 16, 2023, at 1:20 PM, Bill wrote: > > Paul you lose any credibility you might have had when you resort to ad > hom

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Eric Weir
> On May 16, 2023, at 12:34 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > …. > I have noticed that when there is something that doesn’t appeal to a > particular person, they tend to pronounce that it is useless, without > considering that it could be a perfect fit for someone else. > > I think that it is kind

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Bob W PDML
 > On 16 May 2023, at 18:34, Larry Colen wrote: > > […] > > I think that it is kind of silly for someone to buy a brand new film camera > when perfectly servicable ones are practically being given away. I > personally bought several when I got back into photography because I wanted > the le

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Larry Colen
I think that the serape of snark is large enough to cover more than one person in this discussion. I have noticed that when there is something that doesn’t appeal to a particular person, they tend to pronounce that it is useless, without considering that it could be a perfect fit for someone e

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Bill
Paul you lose any credibility you might have had when you resort to ad hominem attacks. bill On Tue., May 16, 2023, 10:33 a.m. Paul Stenquist, wrote: > > > > On May 16, 2023, at 11:52 AM, Bill wrote: > > > > One could say the same thing about someone's split window Corvette that > > spends it

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Paul Stenquist
> On May 16, 2023, at 11:52 AM, Bill wrote: > > One could say the same thing about someone's split window Corvette that > spends it's life locked in a trailer, only to be seen at car shows.. Perhaps, if one were given to exaggeration and fuzzy thinking. Yes, the camera has some value, but I t

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Bill
One could say the same thing about someone's split window Corvette that spends it's life locked in a trailer, only to be seen at car shows.. If there is full follow through on this, they will be releasing four film cameras to go after a resurgent market that is being underserved. Pentax has also a

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Paul Stenquist
It’s useless to those who, like me, still own plenary of film cameras. I guess there will be some market for it. but perhaps not enough to make it profitable for Ricoh. > On May 16, 2023, at 11:10 AM, l...@red4est.com wrote: > > If simply having fun is useless. > You could say the same about m

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread lrc
If simply having fun is useless. You could say the same about my argue c3, but I got some of my best photos with it when I took it to burning man years ago On May 16, 2023 3:18:43 AM PDT, Paul Stenquist wrote: >A useless toy. > >Paul > >> On May 16, 2023, at 5:14 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >>

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 16.05.23 um 16:54 schrieb Steve Cottrell: It’s interesting to note that a lot of young people into photography are curious about film and want to explore possibilities. My own son has acquired a film SLR, and also took an old Olympus XA-2 I gave him on holiday loaded with Fujifilm. It seem

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Steve Cottrell
I think the point of it, according to what I read, is that the useless toy is a test-bed on which Ricoh will develop a film SLR. It’s interesting to note that a lot of young people into photography are curious about film and want to explore possibilities. My own son has acquired a film SLR, and

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 16.05.23 um 12:18 schrieb Paul Stenquist: A useless toy. Very much so. Then again, as long as it brings money into Pentax' coffers it's just as fine with me as pink, neon-yellow or textmarker-green DSLRs. No-one forces us to buy them. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Paul Stenquist
A useless toy. Paul > On May 16, 2023, at 5:14 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > >  > https://petapixel.com/2023/05/15/pentaxs-new-film-camera-will-have-a-fixed-non-interchangeable-lens/ > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCR