Lead designer of the Pentax 17, Takeo ‘TKO’ Suzuki, AKA @tkocamera, has announced his retirement on Instagram, the same day that Kosmo Foto reported that Pentax parent company, Ricoh Imaging, is "pausing" the Pentax Film Project. Kosmo published a statement from Ricoh, regarding the future of the company's voyage into modern film photography, which said: “we need time to gather feedback, meet with customers, and learn what they appreciated – or felt was missing – before making decisions on future film products.”
But the company has made it clear that it's not ruling out new film cameras. “So, while TKO played a significant role in the Pentax Film Project, his departure does not affect the possibility of future film models”, which is certainly promising news for analog fanatics.
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