Pentax 17 使用半格菲林格式，保留手動過片及捲片設計，不但極具過往拍攝菲林的手感及體驗，更結合現代的製作工藝。Pentax 17 使用 37mm，F3.5光圈鏡頭 (35mm格式等效焦距)，並使用多層 HD 鍍膜及 SP 鍍膜，提供高清銳利的成像效果。功能上，Pentax 17 的拍攝模式多達 7 種，能及靈活自如地應用於不同的場景，令用家得到最佳的拍攝效果。

"It's time for film"

Photography is an art in which the camera captures light, then forms an image of a scene based on that light.

You can use the light to create your own image, using it boldly on some occasions, or more sensitively on others. A film camera portrays the scene exactly the way you read the light and intend to capture it on a photograph.

While film cameras have had a long history, you will discover a new value in a film camera.

What’s the film camera? As the name implies, this is a camera that uses film as its recording medium. Digital cameras record images using electrical signals, but film cameras create pictures by exposing the photosensitive layer of the film to light.

What’s the half-size format? Film comes in many formats, but the most popular is the 35mm format (36mm x 24mm frame size) — what we call full size in digital photography. The half size is a format in which two pictures (17mm x 24mm) are captured in a single 35mm-format frame, meaning that you can double the number of pictures that can be captured on a single roll of film — 72 pictures on a roll of 36-expsoure film, or 48 pictures on 24-exposure film.