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"They say it's hard to beat the king, and the 51.4mp medium format Pentax 645Z is simply stunning in its ability to bring fine detail to life. Of course, it's more than twice the price and is substantially larger as well, but it serves as a useful reference point."
The Pentax 645 is not a 135, it lacks the mobility and performance for shooting fast moving objects. And the lens selection is far less, with much higher costs, too.
New Pentax FF will have something like Olympus, only better. Becauz it will be Foveon-like image capture with same amount of pixels as senzor enablez, but better colour depth. It will knock people's sockz off. Pentax wantz to up the image quality to be clozer to the 645Z. Unfortunately, Canon, Nikon, and other companiez who DID NOT want to invest into SR inside body technology, can never match. Even today, Pentax is best choice for pure image quality.
The 645z has a small crop sensor, so that it is only 20% wider than a FF sensor. But the 645z lacks fast lenses, so it can't produce the bokeh, which FF setups can. Due to the APSC autofocus system (tiny for medium format), the 645z is useless for any tracking purposes. This reduces the 645z to a special purpose camera.
The bokeh of MF is surely superior to that of the FF, owing to the physically larger apertures for the same AoV. My practical experience supports this.
I was using film rangefinder medium format (Mamiya) and found that I got better results with my Pentax 35mm camera for portraits with the 85mm. Sold it. The rangefinder was only good for landscapes stopped way down on a tripod. 645 SLR is different suspect.
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Uncle Tom · 521 weeks ago
Ian · 521 weeks ago
RiceHigh 110p · 521 weeks ago
Ian · 521 weeks ago
Mike Kawasaki · 521 weeks ago
It will knock people's sockz off. Pentax wantz to up the image quality to be clozer to the 645Z.
Unfortunately, Canon, Nikon, and other companiez who DID NOT want to invest into SR inside body technology, can never match. Even today, Pentax is best choice for pure image quality.
Pentaxian · 521 weeks ago
Due to the APSC autofocus system (tiny for medium format), the 645z is useless for any tracking purposes.
This reduces the 645z to a special purpose camera.
Mike Kawasaki · 521 weeks ago
What weed are you smoking?
RiceHigh 110p · 521 weeks ago
Bukaj · 521 weeks ago
RiceHigh 110p · 521 weeks ago
sold my MF gear · 521 weeks ago
Ian · 521 weeks ago
I doubt many Z's will be used for action photography so the auto focus is not an issue.