I just feel funny saying "inexpensive" for a 10K camera. Not my world. For all of our musings on this camera, this might be a good move for Pentax. MF cameras aren't held to the same cutting edge electronic standards as the high end FF and Dx bodies. It might be a healthy niche market that leads to a little notoriety, e.g., people see the name on a wedding camera. The K7 on steroids approach seems to work just fine. Aside from Leica, is any other company making MF and FF/DX cameras?
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
