Current 645 digital backs are around $16,000. So if Pentax could sell a 645 digital body for less than that they would have a good position in the professional market. However, I already went through all this back in the MZ-D days. Deja vu.
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Paul Ewins wrote:
I think that is just the point, they have a prototype but the sensors aren't cheap enough yet, so they can't release it. When they can sell it for $6000 they will. Of course the sensor may have come from Philips in which case we may be waiting a long, long time for the 645NIID
A full frame 645 sensor isn't impossible, it is just going to give very low yields. I wonder whether it would be possible to do a sensor cluster and stitch the output together via software?
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
