Here’s some interesting news from the world of film photography: the popular website Japan Camera Hunter is developing a new 35mm premium compact camera — one that may be an analog/digital hybrid.
Kosmo Foto reports that the news was announced last Friday at a “Save Analog Cameras” event in Tampere, Finland. Japan Camera Hunter founder […]. petapixel.com
Japan Camera Hunter has revealed its latest one-off repainted Leica cameras in honor of JCH’s 10th anniversary. As noted by Kosmo Foto, the Sakura-themed Leica M4 has been hand-painted by Kanto, a specialist camera restorer based in Tokyo, Japan. dpreview.com »
2021-10-29 22:24
In what is perhaps the best good news for the camera world in 2020, BCN Ranking out of Japan found that October was remarkably strong for mirrorless camera sales, outperforming the previous year’s level for the first time in 14 months. petapixel.com »
2020-11-19 19:32
Canon is planning to open a new camera factory in Japan by 2019 in an effort to move more of its production “back home,” but this time it will be relying more on automation to lower the cost of domestic operations. petapixel.com »
2017-09-02 19:20
Automation makes manufacturing at home more competitive TOKYO — Canon plans to have a new camera plant in Japan up and running by 2019 as it moves more production back home, relying on factory automation to lower the cost of domestic operations. canonrumors.com »
2017-08-31 16:22
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has a robotic ball-shaped camera drone called Int-Ball floating around the International Space Station, and for the first time ever it has released videos and images captured by the camera. dpreview.com »
2017-07-18 20:34
Bic Camera, one of Japan’s largest camera and electronics retailers, will be accepting bitcoin as a payment option in all of its stores across the country. The Nikkei Asian Review reports that Bic Camera began accepting the cryptocurrency in Tokyo locations starting in April 2017 as a test, and is now expanding the payment method […] petapixel.com »
2017-07-12 20:10
For a while, 35mm to 120 Film Adapters have been around though not really very common. Well Japan Camera Hunter has a perfect solution for you in the form of 3D printed little knobs that will work with the 120 cameras that you happen to have. thephoblographer.com »
2017-04-18 16:20
Need your vintage camera gear fix? This video ought to do it. Bellamy Hunt (aka. Japan Camera Hunter) recently met up with former DigitalRev TV host Lok and took a stroll through the I. C. S. vintage camera fair in Ginza, Japan for Photo Gear News. petapixel.com »
2017-03-06 19:59
It's no secret that Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 film has become very popular with street photographers and just those curious about film. It's available in 35mm right now, but Bellamy Hunt, the Japan Camera Hunter himself, tells us that it's coming in 120 and that we should expect it before the end of the year. thephoblographer.com »
2017-02-07 23:04
We know that the analog world is alive and well, and so for that reason I went in to update our review of Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400. We're doing this a little differently though: we know that analog still isn't "as popular" as digital photography. So it's being done in a more complex way. thephoblographer.com »
2017-02-06 11:04
I've been playing with more Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 film and shot a scene that I always photograph just to compare what this film and Kodak Tri-X do when rendering a specific scene. thephoblographer.com »
2017-02-04 08:02
The camera market has a very peculiar way of showcasing ongoing trends. While we all have seen a massive drop in some of the most sought-after cameras, thanks to rebates, we have also come across instances where cameras sell for a much higher rate than their original pricing.
Film isn’t dead yet. That’s the obvious message behind Leica digging up its roots and reimagining its storied M6 rangefinder film camera from 1984 and releasing a brand new variant in 2022. [Read More]
Leica has embraced the resurgence of film and revived the ever-popular Leica M6 rangefinder, a camera it first released in 1984 but took out of production 18 years later.
Revival is billed as the film to bring back film. As a photography format that has been largely abandoned due to the rise of digital, it is experiencing a renaissance that Revival's director believes is worth showcasing. [Read More]
After originally being announced back in January 2017, the return of Kodak Ektachrome film is inching closer: rolls of the film are now landing in the hands of beta testers around the world. The official Kodak Instagram account has published photos of Ektachrome boxes being held by photographers. @sandracoan @benjhaisch Thank you for being on […]
Want to shoot Kodak’s extinct Ektachrome film again? You’ll be able to very, very soon. Kodak is saying that a limited supply of the resurrected film is coming by the end of the year, and a full relaunch is scheduled for 2018.