#pentax

Three Years of PENTAX Film Camera Project.

I first learned about Pentax working on a brand new film camera in 2022: analog.cafe/r/film-photogr…. But the company must’ve begun the process much earlier than that, starting with recruiting engineers who worked on film cameras like K1000 (analog.cafe/r/asahi-pentax…).

The company promoted the project for over a year, notably by TKO, and exploded onto the market on June 17, 2024 (analog.cafe/comments/gbyq) to a huge demand (petapixel.com/2024/06/20/n…).

The camera has had mostly positive (also some negative analog.cafe/comments/z76c) reviews and won several awards (digitalcameraworld.com/cam…).

Now, it a…