I don't poke around a lot of studios these days, but a couple of the local pros I know shoot with the Hassy digital, and they own their cameras. These guys aren't megabuck car shooters, just upper quadrant commercial photographers, probably grossing around 100K a year. I think there's a market for the Pentax 645D. If it's anywhere close to the Canon full frame in price, it will be very successful. It has to have better noise characteristics, given the relative pixel density. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It would depend on the cost of rental, and how often you expect to need > the capability. But that's an individual choice. I don't trust market > research. It's really done two ways. Looking at what's selling and > asking questions with surveys. One is unreliable because it can only > predict what's already happened the other is unreliable because People > are People, and you can't trust them. (Which sounds more cynical than > it is actually). There was a time when it was claimed by some, that > 35mm Kodachrome could match the quality of a medium format camera, > (which it could for many purposes, but not all). The Canon 22mp über > camera already eats into the potential medium format market. You get > the equivalent of 35mm flexibility and almost the quality of a medium > format studio camera in one box. Unless the 645D is less expensive than > expected and has markedly better noise characteristics than the Canon at > the same or better resolution it will not sell particularly well. > Unfortunately things has changed. > > > Scott Loveless wrote: > > Rick Denney wrote: > > > >> Knowing what I know about the difference between price and cost, I > >> suspect Pentax (Hoya) may have found that they can't make it cheap > >> enough to sell it for what they should sell it for to compete with > >> Canon (and perhaps Nikon) offerings. That will kill a project faster > >> than mere technical infeasibility. > >> > >> > > This comparison has come up before. Rarely do I hear anyone compare the > > potential market viability of the 645D to whatever Hassy is selling. > > Does anyone actually buy those damn things? From what I've read most > > photographers who need a camera like that tend to rent them. A 645D > > costing 8 or 10K US seems, to me at least, very competitive vs. a 30K > > Hasselblad. Maybe I'm smoking crack again. > > > > > > > -- > I am personally a member of the Cream of the Illuminati. > A union with the Bavarian Illuminati is contemplated. > When it is complete the Bavarian Cream Illuminati will rule the world > -- Anonymous > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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