For me, the most poignant message of this (and the first) video is how easy and quickly knowledge can disappear. Give it 20 years and no-one knows how to build a film winding mechanism anymore; a mechanism that's been used in countless cameras for many decades. Every time I wind the film I'll probably remember this.
Hats off to Pentax. I hope they succeed.
It will have to be appealing to the young. Period. That will be their challenge.
Said it before and I’ll say it again:
They’ll need something extra special to sell the PnS.
A Mju II clone is not going to cut it.
So a circa 2002 digital camera. They are all the rage now. Right?
What's your point?
If the media is to believed, the current rage among young people is the low mexapixel digital cameras from days of yore. If Pentax is going to need to deliver something that appeals to young people, that would be it. Most of what you hear on Photrio is what old men want Pentax to deliver.
If the media is to believed, the current rage among young people is the low mexapixel digital cameras from days of yore. If Pentax is going to need to deliver something that appeals to young people, that would be it. Most of what you hear on Photrio is what old men want Pentax to deliver.
I see what you are getting at, but Pentax is wanting to make a film camera, not a digital camera. To appeal to young generation, the film camera will have to be simple to load, and use. You should see my students sweat it out, trying to load film into a K1000! They get frustrated easily, and ask me to do it for them. They have zero patienceHopefully Pentax will address this.
The "old men" of Photrio are mostly speaking from a position of wisdom.
This video is somewhat baffling to me. An obsession with the winding mechanism. And the sad fact (apparently) that today’s graduates from engineering schools cannot read or understand mechanical drawings.
Good luck to them. Glad there are still a few "old folks" left to help them out.
An MJU clone will sell like hotcakes at a country fair.
I think they're going to go with a modern Hi-Matic like design. But if they just rolled out the Ricoh GR line and updated it people would be quite happy.
If this could retail for under $500 would be great, I don't see how this could be possibleI suspect $1100 more likely.
And the sad fact (apparently) that today’s graduates from engineering schools cannot read or understand mechanical drawings.
Prototype lens/shutter assembly makes me think it could be similar to a Minolta Hi Matic G (zone focus), or if they get really ambitious, F (rangefinder). IME, it's not so easy to get good examples of such cameras, as they were often carelessly stored with batteries still inside.
But any new 35mm film camera would have a high bar of expectation to meet, if it were to successfully enter the contest. It would have to EARN its reputation. Nothing equivalent to the K1000 would do that; it would have to compete with vintage Nikon F-series or the solid build quality of early Pentax, etc.
I don't see a viewfinder, but upon closer examination of the lens barrel, sure, I suppose that the scalloping around the circumference could simply be a decorative element, and I see no hint of a focus helicoid. Hadn't expected that level of sophistication, but more power to them if they can pull it off.I think it was Huss that pointed out the two sensors either side of the viewfinder in one of the photos that indicated it was autofocus.
So manual winding and automatic focus. Maybe that's what young film enthusiasts want.
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