Mark Roberts wrote: > Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> The MZ-D didn't last nearly this long. And there was good reason to >> abandon it. > > True. And if it's not just being shown under glass this time it's a > very good sign. I think the major reason for the delay has been the > pixel count escalation necessitated by high end 35mm-class cameras. > With Canon reportedly going to 22MP with the 1Ds-III, anything under > 20MP is going to be regarded as "35mm class" despite the huge noise > advantages medium format is going to have. Silly, but that's human > nature (and marketing) for you. >
That and Hassy going to 30+MP on its setups. Since the 645D is a integrated back design, Pentax needed to be able to compete with the H3D-31. Mamiya doesn't so much because they do both the integrated (ZD) and modular (645AFDII) solutions. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
