On 28/09/06, Rob Brigham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add to that list: > > C. Landscape photographers - many of whom havent gone digital because (I > think) most MedF solutions need to be tethered to a PC, need mains > power, or are just too bulky to use in the field. Some of these may have > gone digital (if so then many would probably look to the 35mm FF > solutions) but probably few find digital up to the standard so also > shoot film still.
I still shoot 67 for some of my landscape work but the DSLR along with stitching can generally do just as good a job. > The 645 would (hopefully) be a good field use camera and not have any > huge competition in this market, albeit a slightly niche market I guess. > You still (at least up to a year ago anyway) find Pentax highest > penetration in this market among professionals as far as I can see - the > 645 and 67 are quite common in UK outdoor mags. Well it may be something to do with the traditionally ridiculous price of Pentax kit in the UK but here you can hardly give Pentax MF gear away and there are plenty of pros using digital backs in the field. > I don't think the 645D is particularly aimed at studio photogs because > there are solutions which will be fine for them already - albeit > expensive ones...! Pentax may win some of these on price, but not sure > how many. It should be interesting particularly given that most people will still be up for new WA lenses given the crop factor. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
