New Pentax FILM camera

I have im sure 30 slr cams and all the lenses, started of with rico kr10, much prefair them, expensive to develop films killed them and everyone now uses digital so you can sort on home pc.
 
trevskoda said:
I have im sure 30 slr cams and all the lenses, started of with rico kr10, much prefair them, expensive to develop films killed them and everyone now uses digital so you can sort on home pc.
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I am sure you can get more effective door stops than those?
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Not sure I see the point of this other than for enthusiasts.

www.digitalcameraworld.com

Pentax's new film camera prototype is now complete, after a year of development

Makoto Iikawa and Takeo Suzuki spoke to Barfout about the highs and lows of bringing a new Pentax film camera to the market
www.digitalcameraworld.com www.digitalcameraworld.com
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Pretty pointless.

I still have a Pentax 35mm camera - MV model - that I bought 2nd hand from a camera shop in 1982. not been used for nearly 30 years?
However .... While the body is obsolete, I can still use the lenses I had for it on my Pentax D-SLR (which is also probably obsolete as bought nearly 20 years ago)

These kind of cameras, along with Hi-Fi Separates (or even just Hi-Fi and nonsense like £5000 Linn Sondek turntables) have had their day and are sad museum pieces with no relevance in the modern worldl
 
I have a bunch of decent HiFi stuff in the loft, I should get it down and maybe eBay it all.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I have a bunch of decent HiFi stuff in the loft, I should get it down and maybe eBay it all.
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Likely get nothing for it. I tried to sell a complete Pioneer Seperates system - Home Cinema Amplifier, Multi-CD Changer, RDS Tuner, Cassette Desk, all with remote controls, interlinked controls, the lot. Zero interest. In the end I persuaded a neighbour he needed it and gave it to him. He tried to give it back to me a month later as had no room for it :) (sorry, it's yours now :D )

I do have what is - or at least used to be - a very desirable Rotel Pre and Power Amp pair that should be worth something, but likelyhood is they've had their day as well.
 
Decent decks are fetching good money with the resurgence of vinyl.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Decent decks are fetching good money with the resurgence of vinyl.
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Think "resurgence" may be pushing it a bit? much more interest than a while ago for sure, but anywhere near close to pre-CD introduction?
Given how much a new vinyl record is now compared to the other formats the same recording is, not surprised those 'enthusiasts' are willing to pay daft prices for old players.
 
Mr Google says

Are vinyl sales still increasing?


Vinyl sales in the US are up 21.7% for the first half of 2023 over the same period last year, according to a new music industry report. The vinyl resurgence is itself not new – 2022 marked the 17th consecutive year that sales of vinyl records rose, according to Luminate's music midyear report.12 Jul 2023...

PHYSICAL PRODUCTS

Revenues from vinyl records grew 17% to $1.2 billion – the sixteenth consecutive year of growth – and accounted for 71% of physical format revenues. For the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs in units (41 million vs 33 million).
 
wow, big increase - but in percentage terms compared to non-physical format listening, a piddle in a pond.
nearly 6 million vinyl records in 2023 sold in the UK. Pre-CD, that was less than the top 3 albums sold.

Why do people buy Vinyl now?
"Andy Smithson says he is drawn by the "visual aspect" of vinyl
If the music is rubbish, you're still left with a good piece of artwork," he says, sifting through a rack of 45s in Hull's Trinity Market. "

Got space on the wall?

The BPI said cassette sales were also picking up again after dying out in early 1990s.
Marie ... Keep that Cassette-Radio ... It will be worth a fortune soon! :D
 
streaming I think (not checked) is also very popular, I've not bought, streamed or downloaded anything for ions, not much after the 90s is worth more than a quick listen on the radio.

Speaking of radio (since we went way of topic) I used to listen to Radio two all the time, but quite a lot of the DJs are on Greatest tits radio now, and of course it's on the interweb too, all our radios are tuned to it.
 
Winks said:
Actually rolled the Kodak Carousel out whilst the grandkids were with us last week. Nice to show them that we too were once young. They were particularly impressed with their Grandma at the age twenty one.
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Funnily enough so was I.

Cheers

H
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That really made me laugh, and yes, you chose well too.

We were showing a grand daughter some photos of us just before Christmas. She looked aghast, turned to our son and said "Nana's wearing a bikini 😱".

It took me back to my youth when my father smiled, looked at me, and said "Don't think that your generation had all the fun." 😄
 
HurricaneSmith said:
That really made me laugh, and yes, you chose well too.

We were showing a grand daughter some photos of us just before Christmas. She looked aghast, turned to our son and said "Nana's wearing a bikini 😱".

It took me back to my youth when my father smiled, looked at me, and said "Don't think that your generation had all the fun." 😄
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Wasn't an actor in one of the "What the Butler Saw" peepshow machines was he?


"HAROLD!!!"
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wildebus said:
Pretty pointless.

I still have a Pentax 35mm camera - MV model - that I bought 2nd hand from a camera shop in 1982. not been used for nearly 30 years?
However .... While the body is obsolete, I can still use the lenses I had for it on my Pentax D-SLR (which is also probably obsolete as bought nearly 20 years ago)

These kind of cameras, along with Hi-Fi Separates (or even just Hi-Fi and nonsense like £5000 Linn Sondek turntables) have had their day and are sad museum pieces with no relevance in the modern worldl
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Henry halls as far as the sondek goes you deef eriot.
 
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