>From what I've heard the 6x7 lenses were superb and supposedly better than the zeiss lenses hassy used on the V series and also better than the 645 lenses. I don't know how true that exactly is, but I've heard it repeated from various people that shot MF with pentax bodies. If you factor 3-4 really good primes to match the D800, I'm guessing that the price point doesn't look all that different, though I must say the new 645 lenses are definitely not cheap by any means. You could build a film era kit for what, somewhere between $1-2000? Some of those lenses won't match the Z's sensor, but I imagine would at least keep you in D800 territory. If you ask me, the D800 pushes glass hard and that makes getting the best results out of it an expensive proposition anyways. It takes fairly good lenses to match even a 24mp sensor, so unless you just want at best 20-24mp images using 2nd rate glass. If that's the case, you're still getting nowhere near the 645Z in terms of resolving power. The pixel pitch and smaller format means diffraction is going to cut in faster as well, negating the benefit of lacking an AA filter. The D800 is diffraction limited at f5.6. The 645Z looks like its at f8 or so if this calculator I'm using is correct. Probably a stop ahead.
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Luka Knezevic-Strika wrote: > >>well, you can also use the mf lenses on almost anything :D > > Sadly, I think the 645-to-k-mount adapter is out of production. And it > didn't support autofocus. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > 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.
