I went to Texas to shoot the Pentax 17 against my Nikon F3 and find out once and for all if half frame holds up. What followed was four days of mystery soft focus, a fully ruined roll of Ektachrome E100 slide film, and a hard lesson about reading the manual before leaving the house. Then I drove to Colorado to fix everything. Here's what I actually found out about this camera.

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