RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: 645Z Announced

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

645Z Announced

http://www.camera-pentax.jp/645z/en/sp/

http://www.camera-pentax.jp/645z/en/sp/passion.html

http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/645z/spec/

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Dan Johnson · 570 weeks ago

I wanted a Pentax Full Frame DSLR, but not at this price. They"ll have to make it less than half that price with a lot of BIG MODERN DAY improvements before I"ll get serious about buying one. Nobody else charges that much for a 35mm FF-DSLR Pro Model. Doesn't Ricoh know we have opposable thumbs and walk upright.

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Bukaj · 570 weeks ago

It's not fullframe, it's allmost double the sensor area of FF + twice the resolution than common 24Mps FF sensors. Hence the price (cheap for what it is).

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RiceHigh 110p · 570 weeks ago

A 44x33mm sensor is just 68% more area than a 135 FF sensor in 36x24mm. On the other hand, a 135 FF sensor is 125% more in area than an indeed tiny APS-C sensor in 24x16mm.

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Bukaj · 570 weeks ago

"Indeed tiny"
...well, that says everything about your obsession with BIG sensor cameras:-)

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RiceHigh 110p · 570 weeks ago

The figures are self-explanatory. Period.

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foton · 570 weeks ago

You are wrong. Nikon and Canon charge more for cameras that are cropped sensor in comparison to this Pentax.

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RiceHigh 110p · 570 weeks ago

How many Pentax 645 lenses you have? If you are only a K-mount Pentax user, a 135 FF body is not cropped, but just fit. An APS-C body is really cropped and much cropped. A 645D/Z body, on the other hand, is completely NOT compatible, and is out of reach for most old Pentax users for its high price, many of whom have already switched anyway.

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Andrés · 570 weeks ago

Isn't the game of 645Z, to carry new users to Pentax field?, and maybe, who knows, attract them to K mount as well?

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foton · 570 weeks ago

They do not hope that I wil buy this camera. There are others who do. Those are the ones they target, not me.

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RiceHigh 110p · 570 weeks ago

I am whom they targeted but most likely I will not buy the Z!

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fullframe_when · 569 weeks ago

I haven't switched yet. Somehow I bought too many qualtiy Pentax lenses. It's a shame I can't use them as designed or sell them easily since so many have switched already.

So are they really making a full frame this year? Pentax? There's people at PF that say it is still possible this year. True or not?

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Dan Johnson · 570 weeks ago

If you buy a medium format camera and put medium format lenses on it, while telling people full frame lenses are to big and heavy for a DSLR, then you've taken pretzel logic to a new level.
P. S.
A 12MP DSLR will give you a 12 inch by 18 inch photo, without editing.

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Chris · 570 weeks ago

Don't use inches, feet, miles, gallons and pounds here. This site is read by a lot of engineers who know better.

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Dan Johnson · 570 weeks ago

You Despot

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