Pentax 645D may be using this 39MP sensor from Kodak

By PR admin | Published: December 8, 2009

As a reader mentioned in a previous post (jeff-c) the expected medium format Pentax 645D camera may be using this model KAF-39000 39MP CCD sensor from Kodak (visit the link for full specs):

Pentax 645D may be using this 39MP sensor from Kodak

A back view picture of the Pentax 645D:

Pentax 645D back view (source: Pentax Japan)

Pentax 645D back view (source: Pentax Japan)

Related posts:

  1. Pentax 645D is revealing itself slowly
  2. Pentax EVIL, 645D price rumors
  3. Which sensor will Pentax 645D use?
  4. Few Pentax 645D updates
  5. Pentax 645D – is this the final version?

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12 Comments

  1. tibor
    Posted December 8, 2009 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

    why is everything so slow before coming out ?
    I want to see a real improvement in digital today, before buying any new product. medium format is surely an answer, but new sensor technology is even better. I would like to see 16bit color depth everywhere & nice dynamic range as well.

  2. Anonymous
    Posted December 8, 2009 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

    That is one ugly camera….

    • Bubba Satori
      Posted December 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm | Permalink

      Well, you won’t have to worry about taking pictures of the camera with the camera. That would be like dividing by zero.

      • Nice lol
        Posted December 8, 2009 at 8:57 pm | Permalink

        n/c

  3. Olivier
    Posted December 8, 2009 at 3:43 pm | Permalink

    That is the Leica S2′s sensor.

    • PR admin
      Posted December 8, 2009 at 4:18 pm | Permalink

      Olivier, The Leica S2 has a 6µm pixel pitch, the above sensor has a 6.8µm but you could be right.

  4. NikoDoby
    Posted December 8, 2009 at 4:45 pm | Permalink

    Hey Jeff-C we could use you over at Nikonrumors too please :)

  5. fmertz
    Posted December 8, 2009 at 5:37 pm | Permalink

    How many years has Pentax been promising this camera?
    Why bother to repeat anything at all about this vapor-flex, zero chance camera?
    If Pentax could have, they would have.
    Congress will announce they are all going to read the Constitution before this camera ever makes it to market.

    • Sky
      Posted December 9, 2009 at 8:31 am | Permalink

      They promise it longer than Sony is producing the DSLRs….

  6. lolque
    Posted December 8, 2009 at 6:30 pm | Permalink

    i still prefer a DB for medium format

  7. Septentrion
    Posted December 9, 2009 at 4:04 am | Permalink

    Hi,
    just to mention that, having been attending at a photo exhibition this fall, I happened to have a conversation at a Pentax photo booth about this camera. As a matter of fact, I am still using the Pentax 6×7 and went there to ask about the potential for a digital version in a foreseeable future.
    This was entirely unsollicitated but the representatives were extremely affirmative about the appearance of a 4.5×6 camera by the beginning of 2010 : I had no more details but they were everything but vague about this.

    • Fotograf Stuttgart
      Posted December 10, 2009 at 6:13 am | Permalink

      might be true, but they will again release it incomplete, for price lower but not that much then twice so better competition and then they will realized that:

      1) those people who want to buy such stuff care for the system a lot, not just the body.

      2) those who rent, rather rent hassy or leaf

      3) they failed (yet) again