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Is this pretty much the same procedure I should use for my plain old K-3? Also, I have never updated my firmware, so do I have to update each one in order or can I just go to the latest one and use that to update? Thanks for the tutorial. Appreciate the effort. 😁

I love the use of "Durham City" to differentiate it from Durham County.

I've just rediscovered my old Ricoh FF-9S and fired off 36exp of Ilford HP5 wandering around the garden because of you Lee. 👍My daughter is going to The Green Man music festival down in the Brecon Beacons next week and I'm going to give her my Ricoh and two rolls of Ilford HP5 (400 iso/asa) to have fun with. Black and White rules okay.

I've just sent a film off to Analogue Wonderland. 😊🤞

Thumbnail made me not to watch this.

Durham is nice! i always try to steal some extra frames at the start of the film, by shooting the pre zero shutter counter images. Sometimes I get a halved on full frame, but when you are using half frame at the outset, you probably got all of it plus two additional frames, i.e. 1 +1/2 frames on ff.

There are plenty of great analog cameras that you can buy cheaply. And garbage to garbage.

These photos are fantastic. I am surprised by the quality of the lens. Well done!

For people new to film or someone who wants to shoot film on a budget or wants something that might be street friendly, this might be a good choice. It is a cool camera, so it might be nice to own for that reason alone.

I just saw your pictures on Facebook 😂

Nice pics. You shouldn’t have to over expose film mind you. I shot film before the digital days and still do some film stuff now. I never really use exposure compensation with film, unlike digital where I tend to often use minus compensation

Analogue wonderland are great. I always use them for my film scans

we used to minimum leader load and wind 2 and shoot 3rd and get 37 from 36 35mm its a trick 36 frames of........and that last is the one

I always found that quality between labs was never consistent, some were good, some bad and some truly awful. That said your scans look good as they should, as for the extra frames that always happened, one usually had light pollution running through and another often cut short. Enjoy your remaining films.

Great images what type of scans did you get if you don’t mind me asking

50th anniversary of the K mount next year. I'm expecting something special.

I'm glad you enjoyed the whole process from taking the shots to receiving the scans. There is something wonderful about using simple cameras such as the 17. The other thing to bear in mind is the joy (or disappointment 😞) of delayed gratification which film brings. There is nothing quite like the tingle of anticipation waiting for one's results. Also, having to trust the camera because you can't chimp shows just how good at getting exposure right simple film cameras are when left to themselves. This is very liberating. One can concentrate on composition rather than settings which is another joyful side to simple film cameras. As an aside, when I shot a roll of slide film back in the 80's and 90's each month, holidays excepted, I would be very happy with just one or two good shots per roll.

A lot of nice shots there! I really like the pint of Worthingtons, and perhaps the learning curve for framing shots in camera really elevated that shot. And that shows why I love photography, film or digital. The results were not what you were expecting, but you got a better shot because of it. Have fun with the little 17, looking foreward to see what you shoot next with it.

I have buy a pentax k 70 in france. And i think this is a really good caméra. May be not too good that K3 mark 3 but for a beginner this is a good choice ( i think) .

Some beautiful shots there, the bokeh on the close up shots were creamy smooth.

Very nice results. The lens looks to be suitably sharp and contrasty and given the camera is zone focused, you certainly seem to have nailed focussing. It must be a combination of the films latitude and the cameras light metering, but I was impressed with the brightness balance between foreground and sky; very few shots had actually blown out, given what you were able to obtain from the scans in Lightroom. I think you are right, the camera won't necessarily appeal to existing film shooters, who will have laboured long to get (or maintain) a traditional 35mm SLR or rangefinder, but it looks to be a serious step up from the current crop of Lomography cameras and being new, it should be reliable for a good while - certainly long enough for new shooters to learn the ropes. There's a market, for sure! Well done Pentax.

Well done Lee. Looks like you got some real nice photos. Kind of makes me want to find some way to get my old Pentax ME Super fixed and run a few rolls through it.

Awesome results Lee! Just keep in mind that the inner framing is used for the two closest focus zones, and all the others use the outer frame markers. My biggest mistakes is sometimes forgetting to change the focus zone. 😅

Sehr gutes Video von dir, wie immer ❤ Gruß Bernd

Informative video , however all depends if the lab develops and processes your film correctly at all stages as to how any prints turn out. Are you editing scans of your negatives or scans of the processed prints ? The old problem with film being you don't have the beauty of being able to machine gun loads of shots and compare them as you can with digital media. Prior to digital I found the labs seemed to ruin more prints by bad processing than anything else , the cost became extortionate compared with digital. Pentax film cameras were not at the time noted for reliability with regards exposure control. Things may have improved now......Good luck

I remember having issues with framing when I used a rangefinder camera back in the day. You get used to it, then it becomes second nature. Dont be miffed, you're going through what we've all gone through. It's all part of the process mate.

Thanks Lee. Nice pics. I found myself getting excited about the grain!

You’ll get the hang of the camera quickly enough. Teething issues is all you’ve experienced. Press on buddy

More scans than expected? Well, back in the film days, it was pretty normal to be able to squeeze one or two more frames than the nominal 24 or 36 out of a roll, depending on how exactly you had inserted and transported the film in the camera. You just couldn't be sure with those extra frames that they wouldn't be ruined by the lines where the film had to be cut or the light had already touched it - which could end up running through the middle of your once-in-a-lifetime shot! 😅 Yeah, some of your images came out slightly overexposed, but with some tinkering, you'll get there. This kind of shooting is more about the vibes and film look and less about "perfection" anyway, I should think. (Honestly, it also reminds me of how little I personally care to repeat the experience, given how far we have come with the possibilities of digital.) But by all means enjoy your film explorations, Lee.

Fascinating video Lee especially for those who want to dip their toes into film photography and see how you progress forward in finding your way through what would be a rather challenging task. The photos look great to me mate.

I'm saving for "17", to buy one this year - but what I really, really want from Pentax, are genuine focusing screens for manual lenses. No more _ersatz_ from eBay. Hey, they're the only brand of OVF cameras at the moment, they should invest a little in that and take full advantage of this (now unique) feature.

Love the chanel Lee followed for years now

I still use my K70 which at the time I was shopping around for a replacement, I preferred to the K1. Ok the K1 is lovely but it's so heavy compared with the K1, at least for me anyway. I love my K70 and have had some great results with it. I don't understand the reason for the Pentax 17. Youngsters just dont appreciate how flexible and cheap digital photography is. What would I like Pentax to make? How about a Pentax version of an Olympus Pen or Lumix S9??

Can someone please explain why can't we have animal eye tracking on a DSLR camera while using live view?

I want a mirrorless!

I am using pentax k10d + 18-55 kit lens but slowly and bad low light performance. What do you recommend? Can it be used professional photography? I am using the v 1.31 firmware. Is there any other specialized software like Magic Lantern for Canons?

Canon could have made a monster ASP-C camera by incorporating the best features of the 7D into the 90D. But they didn't. Why? Profits over a high-quality product. I shoot with the 90D, and it's a fine camera, but it would have benefited from the /D's superior focusing and double-card slot. I've got to add, though, that I´m a flippy screen adddict. I would've been a no-brainer to have a flippy screen with a 70D/80D successor.

Astromodified K3mk3 or K1 mk3 with maybe a digital filter, so it can be used in normal light as well.

The biggest problem is that young people aren’t buying Pentax let alone have even heard of it.

I still use a Pentax K5 and the only improvements I would want would be better AF and a tilting rear screen. The K3iii has the better AF but I wish they would have fitted a tilting rear screen as well. The KF has an articulating screen but I don't like those, so my only other option is the K1 which I may get one day :)

K1 MIII, i think like K3 III with all benefits of K1 MII. May be a new processor PRIME VI for greather Buffer and improve common workspeed. Focusstacking! Global Shutter for first DLSR ;p. Greetings from Germany.

The 17 has been received well, and judging from the design it would be easy to put a FF 35mm ish lens on it, FF viewfinder, possibly AF and make a FF version. I think that may well be the next Pentax camera.

Pentax 6 x7 mark 111 please

How about A.I. focusing and A.I. exposure...

I want a full frame DSLR camera w/ no video capability, wifi, eyefi no BS, just for photos. Pentax has always been my favorite. Maybe just a simple tilt screen like the one my MX-1.

Definitely I look forward to the K1 III. The K1 II is awesome, but it's slow compared to the K3 III in terms of frame rate, the screen is not touch and dated, and a faster processor would enable modern capabilities like: Focus stacking Fast frame rate Lower ISO noise for higher ISO capability Faster and more precise focusing And in general a quality upgrade.

I still have my pentax k70 and a couple plm lenses. Sadly I don't use it very much anymore. I only do astro stuff with it now but it's being replaced by yet another mirrorless panasonic. The problem I have with pentaxvis battery life! I have 5 batteries all pentax ones. I get about 50 shots from each one. Its appalling. My panasonic will still be taking shots on a single battery all night and also shoot video. I've had the camera tested and after 200 dollars of no work needed it's as good as it can be! Pentax took 3 months to return the camera. It's very bad service. I borrowed a k1 mk2. It was slightly better on the batteries but a massive leap in quality of images. The problem I ran into though was the pentaprism. I was shooting the solar eclipse with my panasonic and decided to get the k1 out. Dam I nearly blinded myself. I forgot it's a direct light path from a dslr. So let that be a warning for everyone. I can't go back to the pentax system now. I have 3 panasonic cameras and they are like pentax cameras should be. Solid reliable and long lasting with great video. Sadly for pentax it seems they don't care about the market outside Asia. They are doing there own thing now. The film camera is high on price when you compare it to a full frame used film camera. If I wanted to do film I'd go down that path. After 40 years of photography I think cameras are stagnating. Everything is no better than 10 years ago really. Pentax are still playing catch up or niche chasing. Sad really but that's the business for you. Just my thoughts folks.

Lee, I really like your video style. I look forward to seeing your Pentax 17 shots.

I’d like to see the k3iii, more lenses released with PLM. K80 and perhaps a high res apsc body k3 r