You can drone on forever about what you like or dislike re this camera, and its feature set is a weird mix of technology used or missing, but who cares? The real question is who would buy and use this camera, and that relates to what it can do. What it can do is more easily defined by what it cannot do. It cannot be a camera for professional use, and it was never intended for that role. It is not intended for serious amateurs, who do their own processing, make enlarged images to display, or go out on trips specifically devoted to photography, landscapes and such. That leaves it for casual use: snapshots, parties, babies and pets. The images get scanned and end up on cell phones, Facebook, and videos like this one. But here's the rub, whether the thing costs $500 or $50. My 18-year-old PowerShot SD1100, all 8 megs, will do all of that and a lot more, yielding an image which is already digital, is at least as good when viewed for these purposes, and can be edited and sent on to its final social media grave in less time that it takes to scan one roll of film from a Pentax 17. It's a third the size and weight, used, less than 20% the price of the 17 new, doesn't require 72 photos to access results, and doesn't cost $30 for a roll of film and processing/scanning. Cell phones - same story. So, who exactly makes up that anticipated flood of Pentax 17 buyers? As a sign of film rising like a Phoenix from the ashes of digital, I think it is a dud on arrival. (Too bad if I'm right. Imagine the "17 project" guys going before the Ricoh board with "We can make it different next time.")

Great video. Do you know how many watts the lights he used are? I’m still trying to figure out if lights under 600 watts will work in studio shooting with my Pentax 67.

In Mexico price is 870 usd. So i think it's an insane price for a camera that doesn't even have autofocus nor even a fully manual control of exposure parameters.

It takes me an age to shoot a full roll of 35MM as it is, I’d never finish one if I had this camera 🤣

I think this camera is going to sell really well

Just got mine, looking forward to use it to document my life

I have about 4 rolls of film through mine. I preordered it the day they started allowing orders. I am an experienced film photographer - and wanted a pocketable, reliable, fast & easy film cam - and it is perfect for that. All the hate / negative critics seem to have the same things in common - they can't wrap their heads around what it actually is vs what they want and none of the most critical reviews I have seen actually have one.

Exposure issues with the i2 have recently been acknowledged by the designers. Apparently the auto exposure algorithms were designed in conjunction with film having a lower iso value. There will be a firmware update soon to rectify this. As far as framing goes all non SLR cameras have this issue with parallax and relies on the photographer taking this into account if needing precise framing.

This is the kind of review that KZfaq is desperately missing. Thank you for taking your time and focusing on use case, not just specs. Got a sub from me!

Great review! Thanks! As for Pentax; it must have been an enormous lift to sell the management to make a new film camera. I think i will buy one just as principle to support the effort. It is very brave! I do think they came-up short in the combination. The half-frame would be great with AF; or make a full-frame m42 body (with metering + flash) that fits all M42 lenses. Do not fix what is not broken! If they would make a 645 using the current Pentax 645 lens collection and able to use the old lenses; it would fly of the shelves. Keep it simple; manual settings only with metering, flash sync and AF + ground glass focus plane. Give all people with existing Medium Format lens collections a reason to get the new Pentax 645/F (film).

I’d love a compact camera like this! Thanks for the review ❤

Can you compare this vs something like a ee3?

Thanks for your detailed review! :)

I’m a fashion photographer in Manchester for two weeks. Let me know if you need an assistant as I’m incredibly bored and would love to help you out on a shoot.

She needs correction keyboard,it shoud've come with the scanner, correcting color using mouse is very pain in the .a2se

Thanks for posting this Sophia!

Do you shoot one stop over exposed on this camera ?

How do you upload films? Been wanting to get a film camera and post it on my social media but don’t know how to upload the films lol

amazing photo, love it! Btw I just wanna ask, when shooting this personal projects and working with stylists and make up artists, are you paying them or is it just a pure collaboration only?

How do you do that with money when you want to do these shoots? do you pay the model of do you get payed for what you shoot for or how does that work exactly?

Do you use any lens filters? If so, what kinds do you use and prefer the most?

WOuld actually love to see how you edit the colours and your approach to this! great video Sophia

She's amazing funny down to earth....she talks from her heart ...so beyond real....god bless her

If you're processing the film yourself, it's actually useful that the film winds itself out of the canister. Good work.

Hi Sophia! I just purchased an RB with the 90mm lens! Do you have a recommendation for your favorite lens to use for portraits? I want to invest in one more!!

Another video offering insights into the use and function of the Pentax 67 system from someone with no experience or learned knowledge about the camera or its operation. I.E., a waste of time. The first 40% of the video is devoted to a circular discussion of the Pentax;s limitation of shooting daylight balanced flash. (That not what she says, but it's what she is doing.) HInt: as a user of the Pentax for 40 years, I'll assure her that using it to shoot daylight balance flash handheld is a waste of time and effort. There were two lenses which incorporate leaf shutters to do this, but they are a frustrating pain in the ass to use (speaking from personal experience). They are also both second class optically compared to their non-leaf shutter alternatives when shot as a normal lens. The Pentax 67 does everything else so well, that it can be forgiven this shortcoming. Also, she undertakes to compare the color rendition of a Pentax 67 with a Mamiya RB (?), using different film types in the cameras. What is that supposed to show? Amazing.

So, she wants tips on why Phoenix 200 prints so badly on RA-4 color printing paper. Okay, here's a few. C-41 films normally have the red-orange mask for a reason. it's not just make them harder to print. It's there to color correct the image dyes in the negative to match the requirements of the RA-4 processed color paper. Phoenix 200 omits that printing mask entirely, so it is clear that Harmon has never intended the film to be RA-4 printed. They intentionally limited its use to digital scanning/printing, which is still inhibited because film scanners are pre-programmed to deal with the C-41 color mask, and not finding the mask upsets the accuracy of the scan process to some degree. Another reason for the failure of Phoenix 200 as an RA-4 printing source is that the color palette is grossly uneven, in that some colors (reds) are very strong, while others are very weak. It's very hard, probably impossible, to color balance around these issues with the technology limitation of RA-4 printing. Therefore, you can get some saturated colors with RA-4 printing, but they just won't accurately reflect the real colors of the source. You will also find it impossible to print both highlight and shadow details, because of wildly excessive contrast. These technical problems are uncorrected in Phoenix, and you'd need digital post-processing to recover from them. While all of this may seem strange, the relative number of people making wet-darkroom RA-4 prints today is so small that Harmon's decision to ignore their needs when developing this produce, presumably to save money, is fairly understandable. Summary: As evidenced by the print results in the video, RA-4 printing of Phoenix is a waste of time and money.

You did well covering all that in 48 hours - I've lived here 20-odd years and I'm still finding new things. It's a great city with fabulous, creative, talented people.

I'm from Korea! I watched the video so impressively. It helped me a lot and I was able to overcome my fear of using the lights. I have one question. When I see the video, it looks a little blue-toned in the studio, but I wonder if the blue light was shot by turning on the color filter or controlled the color temperature.

I just got one, love it so much. Agree so much about it being an slr. I couldn’t take my rb67 anywhere easily.

Would you still recommend this lens for 2024?

She mentioned for accessible versions of the lights she used, do you have a link for those?

What kind of paper do I need for COLOR film contact sheets

great images. great work. why is she holding the lav?

Did my eyes mess up? Did I see crazy apertures?

Incredible work all around

My favorite film camera 🔥 i got some 3d printed adaptors that let me shoot panoramics with 35mm film in it. There's a lot of little tricks and tips with the 67

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Wonderful work love it

Lovely video

Jonathan mannion makes me want this camera so bad! I enjoyed hearing your 2c on it

Fantastically talented photographer. Love her creative approach and I learned a lot. My one question... is it my imagination or does nobody use a clip mic as a clip mic anymore? It’s such a weird affectation. A bit like plugging our phones in and only using them while they're tethered to the wall. 😜

Hey Nice shots on phoenix, the roll I did was def underexposed. Need to rate it lower like you did. Please don't call the cops about that joint in my new sprocket hole video, I promise it was all special effects. Subbed!

The 105 is a fantastic lens. Check out Hannes Caspar, most of his work is shot on P67. If you want to push it to the next level, look for Pentacon Six lenses, converted for P67. For the 105, I got myself a quick focus ring, big recommendation.

Sooo question: When you say the 1/30s flash sync means that more ambient light gets captured, that is the case because during those 1/30s that the shutter is open the flash fires somewhere during that time, but only lights the scene for less than 1/30s, which means during the rest of that time the film captures the light that there without the flash? and faster speeds are more congruent with the actual time the flash illuminates the scene?

Better get one now before prices go back up 🥴

Do you like Hasselblad X2D?

The Viewfinder on the Pentax 67 only shows 90% of the frame. That might be why your composition is a bit different to your other shots.

One of the homeliest cameras ever made! But so much fun to use and image quality? Near perfection!

You hsve metering prism on the camera. So, never take the prism off without first taking the lens off. There is a tiny chain that acuates the aperture and if you take theprism off irst it will break the chain and ruin your day. Guess how I know this !!!