It's not significantly more expensive than a 1DsmIII or D3x while delivering about 75% more pixels and is far less expensive than a Leica S2 (and you can get more than 4 lenses for it), and those really are the only high-MP options with weather sealing.
-Adam On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > Lots of nature photographers (and their websites and mags) are really > eager about this. Its a big sensor, lots of lenses, and weather > sealing. And, as odd as it is to say this, its all relatively > inexpensive. Especially with the old 645 A lenses out there. > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Alastair Robertson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/pentax-645d-first.shtml >> >> Here's a hands-on first look report and video about a pre-production >> 645D from Nick Devlin for the online magazine Luminous Landscapes >> which is usually a pretty reliable source for sensible reviews. >> >> I, of course want one, but almost certainly will never actually do so! >> Still if it's as good as the review suggests it's going to be and >> keeps getting order the rate it is going in Japan - it must gbe good >> for sales and reputation for Pentax. >> >> Alastair >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

