Update: as rumored before, the expected price of the Pentax 645D is going to be around US$ 6,500.
This is a screenshot from Pentax Japan's website:
Here is a better screenshot (the background changes depending on the day/night time - the above shot was taken during the night cycle):
Not clear how long the countdown will go, but the Pentax 645D is expected to be released in March of 2010.
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This cannot be!?
“645D will be unveiled March 11-14th at the CP+ (Camera and Imaging Show). The site is under construction. The body is ready.”
http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/2010/02/official-645d-teaser-is-there.html#IDComment56123973
I will believe it when I see it…
Sweet! Let’s hope the price is reasonable.
And let’s hope that Pentax doesn’t share the definition of “reasonable price” with Hasselblad.
This is the price I got few weeks ago: US$ 6,500
I updated the post.
Ouch! That may hurt over at Canikon…
That’s AWESOME! A real alternative!!
Honestly, Nikon started this mess with the D3x price! That leaves a ton of opportunity for any forward thinking full-frame/medium format.
NICE!
Looks like Pentax gonna be for MF the same what Sony is for FF. Can’t be any better!
Yeah, it reminds me when folk was hoping for a 8.000 dollar Hasselblad
I hope it will be 6.500. I hope it will have 40 mp or the like (and screw those who say mps are not useful). I hope it will not end like the Sony alfa 850: with no buyers. I hope Nikon will be forced to release FF cameras with a decent price, from now on…
I hope so, but I really do not believe it…
Strange, the shape of the camera look more like a dslr to me; not a medium format camera.
im a pretty broke student, but i can garantee that at 6500 i would buy one eventually instead of getting a top end dslr. If its atleast 20 megapixels and has good dr then im sold already.
The Mamiya Zd was available as a MF back for the Mamiya AF-D and so had the look of a deep camera like “usual” MF camera (due to roll of film going backway instead of frontway like 24×36), but the Zd Camera was nearly the size of a Nikon D3/Canon 1D serie camera.
Most digital medium formats cameras are DSLRs.
I would buy it when the reasonable price will be around 2500-3000$ for a 30MP camera with 80mm 2.8 lens.
6500 for anything over 20 megapixels in a mf is a great price
you don’t really need f2.8, MFs separate background far more then 135 sensors. For 3k you will never see it, but for 6500 it will force CA/NI to rethink their overpriced bodies. Something what sony sadly didn’t managed.
6500USD or Eur is very fine price. Even with just one lens it would be perfect addon to arsenal almost every pro photographer. At this pricepoint one would forgive a lot…
As long as the image quality is there, im not worried about megapixels too much as long as its around 20 + , for this price base iso is fine as long as its crisp, and who cares about frame rate or any fancy features just give me a solid high quality base iso shot with enough megapixles to crop a bit with some fine pentax lenses and im a happy guy.
Actually ISO doesn’t matter much in such cameras.
it’s not reporter DSLR – MF cameras have different usage.
i did say base iso is fine, as in whatever the lowest is, as long as thats high quality i couldnt care less if even adding one stop to the iso creates grainy death. Its a studio and landscape camera, high iso is useless.
i could live with even iso 25-400, or even 6-400
, hell even with fixed iso if it is low enough, high flash sync speed is by far my priority on such camera