Herb wrote: > there are speculations by financial analysts that as soon as the replacement > for the Nikon D70 is announced, there's going to be the start of the same > price war as we a saw in digital P&S cameras. the entry level DSLRs from > Canon, Nikon, Pentax, and Olympus are basically the same. what's the > differentiator when that happens? megapixel and price wars.
Yep, and thats why a 645D may make sense (dependent on price): there are not that many competitors and no one in the foreseeable future that can provide such a raft of affordable (for medium format) lenses, both new and used. And again they are even affordable by high-end 35mm standards. Even if you could afford a digital Hasselblad, bying a comprehensive line of Carl Zeiss optics is prohibitive expensive if you don't own them already. In addition no other MF system offers such a range of modern lenses, and with this I think mostly zooms, as Pentax does. Both price on lenses and their character make a Pentax 645 Digital a real alternative to high-end 35mm based DSLR for most usages. The 645D id the first MF Pentax DSLR. My guess is that it won't be the last. We will se lower prices and more Mpix with time. P�l
