Pentax and MF?

Moogle Pepper

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp

I am highly curious and very interested. SInce I don't have a spare 30k to spend, 9k sounds much better to start with MF.

ziggy53

Compared to the Mamiya DM40, also a 40MPix medium format camera, the Pentax is quite the steal (at least by simple specs).

NikonsandVstroms

ziggy53 wrote:

Compared to the Mamiya DM40, also a 40MPix medium format camera, the Pentax is quite the steal (at least by simple specs).

They have it listed at 9,400, while a little bit more you are getting down into the high MP Nikon/Canon cameras there.

Moogle Pepper

Yeah but if you wanted to get into MF cameras, this would definitely be a great start since you aren't paying huge sum of money. Even though $9000 is out of range for me personally, it is a lot more reachable than a hassleblad or mamiya.

Grainbelt

Quite a few Pentax 645 lenses floating around, I'd say they just went up in value. Nice to see a compelling, mainstream offering, though I doubt any shop will stock them.

Oh look, the K7 is less than a grand already. :uhoh

ziggy53

Just a comparison between the Pentax 44mm x 33mm digital medium format versus the 35mm full-frame format (an original image I created):