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The Pentax 17 Is a New Half-Frame Film Camera
- haunter 2y agoHalf frame and the vertical (smartphone-like) orientation makes this very interesting. And on a roll of 36 that means 72 photos.
- k310 2y agoAlso posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710724 My comment: This camera is very much like my first camera, a Fujica half frame with “guess the distance” focus, some 54 years ago. In addition: I later got an Olympus Pen-F SLR (also half-frame) with interchangeable lenses, which was quite the camera. Match-needle metering and manual TTL focus that my Mom mastered to get some nice photos! A standard "135" film frame is 24V by 36H mm. Half-frame makes this 24V by 17H. (twice) A half-frame slide, scanned should be roughly equivalent to 12 Megapixels. YMMV.