J.C.O. is entirely right. Once superseded by another model, the 645D will stop taking pictures on any ISO other than 140, force JPG format, and introduce a lag of 30 seconds before writing exposures to card. During that lag, you will see a message on the chimp screen explaining what you have to do to re-enable the camera's functionality. For unknown reasons, this message will only appear in the language used by the Inuits of North-East Greenland, who refuse to translate because they find the text offensive.
The next model will be a lot better. Among its most important achievents will be abandoning the hopelessly inaccurate way of relaying aperture information between camera and optics using a simple lever. According to Pentax officials, that's on par with steam engines for obsolence, and they are deeply ashamed about it still being there, despite their best efforts to move forward. Just FYI, you know, like, :-) Cheers, Jostein "J.C. O'Connell" <hifis...@gate.net> wrote: >And presto, you have a $10K obsolete piece o crap original 645D. > >----------------- >J.C.O'Connell >hifis...@gate.net >----------------- > >-----Original Message----- >From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling >Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:53 PM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >Subject: Re: Pentax 645D IR > >Unfortunatly this doesn't address the main problem, The Nikon D800 >pretty much equals the image quality of low end medium format DSLRs in >a >35mm body format. Pentax Ricoh needs to announce a higher resolution >improved image quality upgrade to the 645d real soon now. > >On 12/13/2012 2:26 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: >> Looks like it is: >> http://www.pentaxforums.com/news/pentax-645d-ir-announced.html >> -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
