Or, like Leica's reissue of the classic M6 film camera, it is addressing the new audience of young and old photographers who have expressed that they want to shoot film and want to buy a quality film camera new, not just a used (and now in most cases ancient) one.
I applaud Leica for doing this, and I applaud Pentax for the same reason should they do it. Why not? If they have an audience willing to buy … and you, the Pentax faithful who have scads of good Pentax film equipment already, are not in that audience … and can make a profit doing it, why not? I, for one, have never stopped shooting with a film camera although most of my photography is done with digital capture since the early '00s. Film images look different from digital images, and it's up to a photographer to decide what look to work with and what process from capture to finished photograph suits their needs best. My 1978 Leica M4-2 is loaded and ready to go with a fresh roll of Ferrania P30 in it. :) G > On Dec 20, 2022, at 2:16 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still have one of myb old Spotties. ,g. > > I suspect this is aimed at the "collectors" in Japan, who are willing to > pay big Yen for just about anything "rare." > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 11:46 AM Henk Terhell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> https://photorumors.com/2022/12/19/pentax-is-considering-to-release-a-new-film-camera/#ixzz7o1jx6LCE >> >> Don't know whether there will be much interest for this, but I still have >> some 10 Pentax reflex bodies in my cupboard. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
