Re: Pentax 645 Digital: Look for more than 18 megapixels

2006-03-07 Thread Pål Jensen
Kevin wrote: Kodak 22 megapixel is what Hasselblad have been using and doing very well with. Now they have upped the ante a little with the release of the H2 system and a 39 megapixel Kodak sensor. These chips are not cheap as we all know, neither are pro level camera bodies. Other MF

Re: Pentax 645 Digital: Look for more than 18 megapixels

2006-03-07 Thread Adam Maas
Pål Jensen wrote: Kevin wrote: Kodak 22 megapixel is what Hasselblad have been using and doing very well with. Now they have upped the ante a little with the release of the H2 system and a 39 megapixel Kodak sensor. These chips are not cheap as we all know, neither are pro level camera

Re: Pentax 645 Digital: Look for more than 18 megapixels

2006-03-07 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless the Pentax comes in at high-end 35mm-based DSLR prices, it's going to have issues because of the lack of interchangable backs. Not at all. The only reason for digital backs to exist is that the price of the thing is so

Re: Pentax 645 Digital: Look for more than 18 megapixels

2006-03-07 Thread Adam Maas
Pål Jensen wrote: - Original Message - From: Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless the Pentax comes in at high-end 35mm-based DSLR prices, it's going to have issues because of the lack of interchangable backs. Not at all. The only reason for digital backs to exist is that the price

Pentax 645 Digital: Look for more than 18 megapixels

2006-03-06 Thread Mark Roberts
Since the article in the BJP a few weeks ago quoting 22 megapixels for the Pentax 645D there's been a lot of speculation about what sensor the camera is really going to use. I've just had an email exchange from my friend who works at Kodak in the sensor division. He's one of my former marathon

Re: Pentax 645 Digital: Look for more than 18 megapixels

2006-03-06 Thread Jack Davis
Hmmm.. Will be interesting to watch. Jack --- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the article in the BJP a few weeks ago quoting 22 megapixels for the Pentax 645D there's been a lot of speculation about what sensor the camera is really going to use. I've just had an email

Re: Pentax 645 Digital: Look for more than 18 megapixels

2006-03-06 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, the 18 megapixel sensor is out. Smart money would be on the Kodak 22 megapixel (4080 x 5440) sensor, though that obviously isn't confirmed at this point. Kodak 22 megapixel is what Hasselblad have been using and doing