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

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. Which sensor will Pentax 645D use?
  2. Pentax EVIL, 645D price rumors
  3. Few Pentax 645D updates
  4. Pentax 645D is revealing itself slowly
  5. Pentax 645D will not be sold in the US

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

    That is the Leica S2′s sensor.

    • 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.

    • 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