The 645D is 18 megapixel. AS medium format lenses go, the Pentax glass
is adequately fast. I know there's a 165/2.8 and a 105/2.4 on the 6x7
side. I'm sure there are some equally fast lenses available in 645
mount.
On Apr 29, 2005, at 8:53 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I'm not worried about Pentax releasing a new APS K mount DSLR, my
referral to the MZ-D alludes to the fate of the 645D. No matter what
Pål believes about the relative equality between Pentax 645 lenses, in
cost and capabilities, and Canon L lenses. There is at least one
important aspect where the 645 lenses fall short, speed. You don't
see too many Pentax Medium format f2.8 zooms. or for that matter f2
or faster primes. That alone will put the the 11mp Pentax 645D at a
competitive disadvantage with the Canon 16mp EOS based DSLR. Pentax
will see the writing on the wall cut their losses and not ever release
it. That's bad enough.
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Pentax will have at least an APS upgrade when the time is right.
Don't forget, the big seller, the *istDS, has only been on the market
for a short time. You don't release an upgrade until a substantial
amount of your owner base is ready to move up. In the car biz, I
think they shoot for 40%. I think we'll see an APS camera by this
time next year. I'm also quite confident that it will be at least
10mp, because you have to motivate the upgrade.
Paul
On Apr 29, 2005, at 8:13 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Unfortunately, I think that the pessimists here are right, the most
optimistic thing I see coming out of this
is the next MZ-D...
Rob Studdert wrote:
On 29 Apr 2005 at 18:57, Mark Roberts wrote:
Sorry, but you lost me here. How have we seen that Pentax has no
plans
for full-frame? Why would the release of lenses covering the small
frame
be an indication of this when Canon has several reduced frame
lenses?
Does anyone really believe Pentax wouldn't be willing to obsolete
those
lenses (and have us replace them, of course) in the future?
Pentax probably won't have any choice especially as they career off
in digital 645 land. I don't want to be pessimistic but it's
looking worse for them on every release from Canon and Nikon, only
a blinkered Pentax devotee could call it otherwise IMHO.
Congrats Christian, it sounds like you are now much more content
with your kit, now you can just go out and enjoy shooting with a
future :-)
Cheers,
Rob Studdert
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