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My husband gave me this beauty and I dearly love the Mother of Pearl glow. No details as to age or who made it. He bought it at an estate jewelry store. Very clean inside and mirrored.
Today Olympus announced the E-420, a refresh of their "world's smallest" DSLR: the E-410. The E-420 retains about the same weight and dimensions, which makes it roughly 20% smaller by volume and lighter than the entry-level models from Canon, Nikon, and Pentax.
But the real news is a new 25mm f/2.8 pancake lens, only 23.5mm (0.9 inches) long. Pentax already offers an even smaller 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens, but the larger size of the Pentax mount means the new Olympus ends up significantly shallower (25% shallower than the smallest Canon or Nikon setup). Olympus seems to finally be delivering on the promise of Four-Thirds: DSLR quality in a smaller package.
More choice is always welcome, and combined with the soon-to-be-available Sigma DP1, we are now starting to bridge the gulf between DSLR and non-DSLR digital cameras.
At the bottom end of the digital camera marketplace we have cameraphones, which essentially take no space and cost nothing, since you were buying and carrying your phone around anyway, right?
Next are the ultra-compacts, or "pants pocket" cameras. Here you'll find the camera I just bought, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35, as well as its slightly larger competitors, the Canon Powershot SD870 IS and Fujifilm FinePix F100fd. The Panasonic weighs about 50% more than my Motorola KRZR K1m, and is correspondingly larger, but still fits in my pants pocket. As a rough indicator of image quality, these ultra-compact sensors range from about 2.5x to 5x the size of a typical cameraphone's sensor. That's a big difference, and it's obvious in the pictures.
Until recently (with one exception), the only cameras with sensors larger than Fuji's were DSLRs. The smallest DSLR sensor - the Four-Thirds sensor used in Olympus and Panasonic DSLRs - was almost 5x larger than the Fuji F100fd's 1/1.6" sensor. Still larger were "full-frame" sensors used in higher-end Canon (and now Nikon) DSLRs. By my rough calculations, full-frame sensors are about 3.6x the area of Four-Thirds sensors, 17x that of the Fuji 1/1.6", 35x that of the 1/2.5" sensor most commonly used in ultra-compacts, and a whopping 89x the area of a cameraphone's sensor. The overall situation was that there was a smooth progression of compact camera sensor sizes from 1/4" through 1/1.6", and a spectrum of choices among DSLR sensors from 4/3" to full-frame, but a massive no man's land in between.
The exception was Sony's groundbreaking DSC-R1. For a number of reasons that particular model didn't set the world on fire, but it did point the way to a better future. The concept was simple: put a DSLR-sized sensor in a non-removable-lens compact camera. The actual product was a tough sell though: Sony needed to provide a wide zoom range, since this is what people expected in this category, but since lens size is directly proportional to sensor size, the camera ended up significantly bigger, heavier, and more expensive than an entry-level DSLR. It didn't matter that they included one hell of a lens for your $999; the rest of the camera just couldn't compete with cheaper DSLRs, and, in my experience, most people don't factor the cost of the lens into their camera-buying decisions.
Sony didn't follow up - soon afterwards, it entered the DSLR market. For the next year, there were no new products for those who wanted a compact but weren't satisfied with typical compact sensors.
Then came Leica digital. The Leica M8 sported the same relatively compact (albeit dense) dimensions of its film predecessors, but with an APS-H-sized (1.3x-crop) sensor. Although it was longer and weighed more than an entry-level DSLR, it was much shorter and shallower, and more importantly, rangefinder lenses were much smaller than equivalent SLR lenses. Assuming your stitches didn't burst under the strain of all that metal, a Leica could fit in your jacket pocket. And the image quality was at least on par with most DSLRs. There was only one catch: it cost $5500, with lens prices to match.
Fast forward another year-plus, and we're about to have two more mainstream options in the larger-sensor compact camera market. As I've already mentioned, there's Olympus' E-420 and its pancake lens. Then there is the truly groundbreaking Sigma DP1.
While the Olympus pancake kit is impressively compact, it's still almost as deep as it is tall. By contrast, the Sigma DP1 is only slightly larger and heavier than the impressively compact Panasonic DMC-TZ series of superzoom digicams, and is within the same "jacket pocket" class. The Olympus kit is 50% deeper, longer, much taller, and weighs almost twice as much. There is a catch, though, and again it is price. Probably like most people who owned a 35mm compact, my main reason for doing so was not compactness, but price. The Sigma DP1 has a street price of $800, which is $100 more than the Olympus pancake kit and 2-3x the price of a typical compact digicam.
So the current choices for a large-sensor compact camera are:
Leica: biggish, heavy, $7100 w/ 28mm f/2.8 lens
Olympus: big, fairly heavy, $700 w/ 25mm f/2.8 lens
Sigma: small, light, $800 w/ 16.6mm f/4 lens
As you can see, none of the three are direct competitors, even if they're all trying to fill the same need. My opinion is:
Leica: ludicrous price; not compact by my standards
Olympus: not small enough to make a difference in use
Sigma: the right choice, for the right price - which is under $500
You already know my actual choice: a conventional ultra-compact, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35. Price was the primary consideration. As I am generally happy with my DSLR, a compact is a second camera. Accordingly, I am not willing to pay as much as I did for my DSLR, and I want its features to complement, not duplicate, my DSLR's. Unlike the other choices, the Panny goes wider than my DSLR standard zoom, can go with me places I can't take a bag or jacket, and takes 720p movies. Yes, I am going to pay the price in image quality - but from what I can tell from sample photos, Panasonic doesn't give up much at small display sizes. I'll just have to adjust my expectations and only print small - isn't that how we were supposed to use miniature cameras before the rise of the megapixel?
As for Leica: you have to admit that a big chunk of the price is brand premium. But what is that brand worth when it's slapped on the front of every plastic wonder that comes out of the Panasonic factory?
As I peer out of the window at the gloomy rain, this seems a lifetime ago.
The sunset wasn't visible from Mandina but it was well worth getting up early for the sunrises.
Very rare Schuco bear that is also a ladies compact with face powder, a mirror and a section under the head that once would have held lipstick, a small trace of which can be seen.
From May 1st to June 30, 2026, by episodes, I brought along with me my brand new Pentax 17 camera (see details below) loaded with a 36 (=72 for the half ormat 17x24mm) exposure negative color film Washi-X.
Washi-X color film (spooled in France) is likely Kodak Aerocolor IV Negative Film 2460, a film still in use for general use in medium- to high-altitude aerial-mapping and aerial-reconnaissance photography. It is suited for geological, pollution, archeological, crop and forestry studies; traffic control; city planning; railway, highway, and hydraulic engineering; oceanography; and remote sensing, as well as other areas where photogrammetry is use.
I own the Pentax 17 camera since April 2025. I appreciate a lot its image quality despite de 17x24mm format. It is the sort of camera remaining simple but capable to photography in almost all current conditions. It very compact, light and a joy to use. The Pentax 17 was equipped with a protective 40.5 screwed polarizing filter. For the camera transportation, I used a small camera bag ThinkTank « Mirrorless Mover 5 » that was well protecting the camera from possibly damaging vibrations when using my bicycle.
The expositions were automatically metered by the camera system using the « P » program modes with, or without, flash. For very bright scenes the exposition was corrected by +0.3 to +1EV to compensate the biais induced (and reversely -0.3 to 0.7 EV for very dark scenes to objects).
Fort du Bruissin***, June 30, 2026
Chemin du Château d’Eau
69340 Francheville
France.
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*** Fort du Bruissin
Fort du Bruissin is a military fort built in Francheville, France, between 1878 and 1881. It is one of the links in Lyon's city second defensive ring and, more broadly, part of the "Séré de Rivières" system.
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After completion (78 frames), the film was given to local lab service for C-41 color processing.
Single-frame digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm at approximate reproduction ratio of 1:2. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 15.4 of June 2026) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera :
Since last Christmas 2024, it was on display in the middle of « reusable » cheap camera’s in the window of my local photography store. But this camera is not cheap and sold at 10-times the price of those « reusable » film camera’s. The Pentax 17 is a novel film camera released by Pentax (a brand belonging to Ricoh Imaging, Japan) in June 2024.
The history of « Pentax » name is still something worth to mention. After the WWII, in Dresden (that was heavily destroyed by the bombing of Feb. 13-15, 1945), Germany, The Zeiss Ikon company could not produce anymore the legendary original Contax (a high-reputation professional range-finder 35mm released in 30’s) camera that was taken by Russia and transferred to Kiev, Ukraine, in the USSR. However the brand name Contax survived and the German engineers designed something completely new within several years : the Contax S (S for « Spiegel mirror reflex ») that integrated a pentaprism for a full redressed reflex viewer observation. Zeiss Ikon Dresden registered to new trademarks derived from the words « Pentaprism » and « Contax » that were « Pentax » and « Pentacon ». If Pentacon became the new name of the company in Dresden, the trademark Pentax was bought by Asahi Optical Company in Japan, and became a formidable industrial and commercial success. Asahi Pentax, then Pentax alone, produced amazing quality camera’s including the legendary « Spotmatic » (a 35mm SLR) and stunning medium-format camera’s heavily used by professional photographers. Many of these camera’s of the past century are still operative and appreciated by film photography enthusiast’s.
Production of film camera’s vanished progressively in the mid 2000’s, as digital camera’s became of better quality and finally of generalized appliances in photography. The Pentax 17 was introduced to the market in June 2024, it was a big surprise for all the film photography lovers. Seeing a newly engineered brand-new film camera was a sort of renaissance of the film photography today of a growing interest worldwide.
The camera is a « half-frame » format on the traditional double-perforated 35mm film giving 17x24mm photograms. This format was not as popular as to classical 24x36mm (full-frame) format of most of the 35mm camera’s. However famous and quality half-frame camera’s were produced in the past including, the long series of Olympus Pen for example. Then, the Pentax 17 immediately attracted the attention of experimented film photographers and camera collectors, probably more than the officially targeted customers of the younger generations. Less than a year after, the future of the Pentax 17 and the film photography project of Pentax is questioned today. The chef-engineer who conducted the project in Ricoh company recently left and the marketing of Pentax 17 is now a question.
This finally decided me to buy an exemplary from my local shop and to discover this strange machine. The camera is of course guaranteed, even with a there-year extension after the camera registration on the Pentax website. The whole ergonomic is clearly derived from classical past 35mm camera’s with a fully mechanical film advance and rewind, a collimated Albada viewer, no digital display at all, only levers, barrels, crank and wheels… However inside is a automatic electronic exposure system with flash, the focusing is manual but the electronic mechanism moves the whole optical group with a micro motor.
The lens is a Cooke triplet 1:3.5 f=25mm equivalent to a 37mm of a 24x36mm format. The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented in 1893 by Dennis Taylor who was employed as chief engineer by T. Cooke & Sons of York. It was the first lens system that allowed the elimination of most of the optical distortion or aberration at the outer edge of the image. It likely for this reason that the lens is unscripted curiously « Traditional » on the front lens ring… It is known that a Cooke triplet lens could give surprisingly good results with only three separated optical elements. The Cooke Triplet is still widely used in inexpensive cameras, including variations using aspheric elements, particularly in cell-phone cameras. The Cooke triplet consists of three separated lenses positioned at the finite distance. It is often considered that the triplet is one of the most important discoveries in the field of photographic objectives
The lens receives 40.5mm diameter thread filters that I use for my Zorki / Leningrad lenses Jupiter-8 2/50mm, Jupiter-11 4/135mm and Jupiter-12 2.8/35mm. The metal shade hood Minolta D42KA could mounted on the filter but I have to check is there is vignette induced.
The camera size is close to the original dimensions of a thread-mount Leica (called also the original Barnack Leica) which are, in a way, a sort of « Gold » size in the 35mm camera’s. I compared with my Zorki 1D year 1954 that is a straight reproduction of the Leica Iic. The upper deck of Pentax 17 is designed very clearly as a classical 35mm and we even find the original logo of Asahi Optical Company. The rewind crank is also a revival of past design seen on old Pentax SLR as my year-1971 Spotmatic SP in this seres of pictures.
The Pentax 17 is very light (about 300g) compared to those old ancestors that weight easily the double or the triple. It is then an effortless camera to carry. The Pentax 17 fits in the small ThinkTank bag (called « Mirorless Mover 5 ») that I recently bought to safely carry a film back of my Hasselblad or my Bronica 6X6 camera’s. In this tiny bag, the camera is protected for the element and vibrations due to cycling for instance.
Reference
analoguewonderland.co.uk/blogs/film-photography-blog/pent...
Key features and specifications
* Half-frame image capture (17 x 24mm)
* 37mm (equiv.) FOV F3.5 lens
* Zone focusing system with 6 zones
* Circular leaf shutter (F3.5-16)
* Built-in flash (6m/20ft at ISO100)
* Optical tunnel viewfinder with frame lines
* Exposure from 1/350 sec to 4 sec (+ Bulb)
* Supports films from ISO 50 to ISO 3200
Specifically the lens has:
1. HD coating, which maintains high performance of the lens, by using this PENTAX multi-coating. This also enables high contrast and high definition right to the edges.
2. SP coating (Super Protect) which helps to repel water and oil from the lens.
The fact that the focusing on the Pentax 17 is electronic i.e. the lens only moves when you half-press the shutter gives me faith that autofocus was already considered in the R&D stage.
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