OK, let me seize my chance to show my ignorance. Compared to a K-5 or equivalent, the 645D is bigger, heavier, slower, and doesn't have as many interesting lenses. Its only advantage is a mega-huge sensor with correspondingly many pixels. So my conclusion was that this kind of thing is really only useful for those who want to do large-format printing, magazine pages and up.
Is there any other reason to use one, aside from it being beautiful and seductive and all that? -Tim On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > >> On 1/13/2011 6:05 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> If I could pretend to afford it, I'd buy the kit and keep one set for >>> myself. >> >> Suppose you could. Then you would have to /pretend/ you'd need one as it >> seems to me that your kind of shooting does not /necessarily require/ one. I >> know for certain that /mine/ does not. > > You are quite right there. Though having one would allow me to do some > Savagesque style photos of the desert night sky. I'd do a lot more night > landscape photography but my gear is not quite up to the task. Having seen > what a 645D can do at ISO 800-1600, it would be very fun to play with one > when photographing musicians. It is interesting to see how it compares with > the Nikon D3, though I suspect that you could throw some math at the raw > file, process the 41 Mpix down to the D3s 12 Mpix, and gain some performance > there. > > I describe the type of photography that I do as "photography that uses a > camera". But, I have to admit that while a large percentage of the photos > I've taken in the past few years would have benefited from the performance of > a K-5, only a small percentage would have benefited any more with a 645D, and > a large number of them would do better with a K-5 than with a 645D. But, > while a Dodge van might do a carpenter a lot more good than a Porsche 911, > that doesn't stop the carpenter from wanting the 911, any more than reality > keeps me from wanting a 645D. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
