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Pentax’s new $500 film camera prioritizes style over quality
Who needs resolution when you’ve got vibes?
But the $499.95 Pentax 17 (launching later this month) is a totally new camera, one that, in 2024, takes the so-hot-right-now 35mm format and shoots smaller pictures for the sake of fun and making film photography cost a little less. Olympus had an entire line dedicated to making these tiny images back in the ’60s, and Kodak has one now with the look, feel, and feature set of a disposable camera that you can reload film into. The lens has no autofocus, but it also isn’t fully manual — you use zone focusing by picking from one of six set distances ranging from as close as 0.24 meters in macro mode to infinity.
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