RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: 645D Awarded European Professional (Digital) Camera of the Year (EISA Award)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

645D Awarded European Professional (Digital) Camera of the Year (EISA Award)

See: http://www.eisa.eu/awards/3/photo.html

Quoted:-

"With the introduction of the Pentax 645D, the medium-format market has gained a much anticipated and highly competitive member that offers exceptional image-quality and handling. The 645D is a joy to use in the field, and although it is big and somewhat heavy, its ergonomic grip, large viewfinder, fast and accurate autofocus, and well-made controls make it perfectly usable without a tripod. With its 33x44mm, 40-million-pixel, Kodak CCD-sensor it is a landscape photographer’s dream, creating absolutely stunningly sharp and detailed pictures with very attractive colours and a huge dynamic range. As a serious photographer’s tool, the Pentax 645D is second to none."

Anyway, the 645D is something that completely out of reach for me. It is not only for its price, but also for its size and weight of the system. Not even to mention it is not compatible with the Pentax K-mount, which is where my love to Pentax deeply associated with. I hoped that there is a Pentax 135 FF, but there is still none in the foreseeable future.

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Very Old Question: Will there be a Pentax Full Frame DSLR?

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Chris · 708 weeks ago

"Anyway, the 645D is something that completely out of reach for me.... [also] for its size and weight of the system."

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"I hoped that there is a Pentax 135 FF, but there is still none in the foreseeable future."

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Rice, your desires are indeed focused on a tiny niche, which is doomed to eternal insignificance. One camera is too small for, the other is too big for you. Yet, for years in a row, you are bashing one small market player with limited development budget and subject to two takeovers in 5 years (Pentax) because that company has decided against serving that particular niche you would buy in.

--> With your apparent needs and preferences, Canikony have what you are looking for. Why wait, go ahead and switch!!

I, however, will stick to APS-C and the fantastic offering Pentax has in that field. For me, the 645D is something to dream about but financially out of reach (well, unless I sell my car and use my bike instead, which would be good for my health as well... so let's give it some thought...).

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PS. Congratulations Pentax for a well-deserved honor.

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Denis · 708 weeks ago

> I, however, will stick to APS-C and the fantastic offering Pentax has in that field.

Glad for, especially after the fact the pentax are getting owned by samsung: their pancakes are much better than ones of pentax, and it's more compact system than pentax. So, the future of pentax APS-C is clear as death: it will disappear :)

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Chris · 708 weeks ago

Please explain. You seem to know something I don't.

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Denis · 708 weeks ago

Samsunx NX is more compact than any pentax DSLR, their pancakes are have better optical quality than pentax counteparts (NX30f2.0 > 40Ltd, NX20f2.8 >> 21Ltd, NX16f2.4 isn't ready yet, but testers say it's sharp, the 15Ltd is not particularly sharp, so I guess the 16 will be better than 15Ltd).
The only weak point is the NX1yy series sensor (the same used in K20D and K-7), but they promised the huge step in their NX2yy.

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Anom · 708 weeks ago

Quote: "where my love to Pentax deeply associated with"
- Love? You are a deeply sick man...

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RiceHigh 110p · 708 weeks ago

No personal attack is allowed here. You are banned.

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Michael A. · 708 weeks ago

Thumbs up!

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RiceHigh 110p · 708 weeks ago

Thanks for your support, Michael.

In fact, I have no problem with completely different opinions, but if someone has to put it personal, I do have zero tolerance on those uncivilized human attacks.

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Chris · 708 weeks ago

While I understand you are opposed to someone calling you "sick", I also see the contradiction between your blog here and your claim that you "love" Pentax. At the very least, this is a disappointed love bordering to hate. Isn't it?