Tag Archives: Pentax 645D

Pentax 645D to be revealed on March 11, 2010

By PR admin | Published: March 5, 2010

The Pentax 645D will be officially announced during the CP+ Camera and Imaging Show in Japan (March 11th-14th, 2010): Source

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Which sensor will Pentax 645D use?

By PR admin | Published: March 5, 2010

At that point it is not clear which sensor will be deployed in the upcoming Pentax 645D medium format camera. My first guess few months ago was for the KAF-39000 from Kodak. The only problem is that neither of those sensors will give us the reported “1.7 times bigger than a regular full frame sensor” ratio (official information […]

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Few Pentax 645D updates

By PR admin | Published: March 2, 2010

Two new details emerged on the upcoming Pentax 645D: Dual SDHC memory card slot (ability to write concurrently or sequentially to the two different SDHC). We already knew that Pentax 645D will support SDHC cards, so this is a nice addition (via DC Watch). The new sensor size will be 1.7 times the size of a regular 35mm […]

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PMA announcements are over, Panasonic and Pentax are next

By PR admin | Published: February 25, 2010

2010 PMA show is over (see detailed report here). A lot of point and shoot cameras were released and almost nothing in the DSLR area. The stars of show, in my opinion, were the “three S”: Sony: EVIL and a700 replacement prototypes. Sigma: 5 new lenses, 2 DP cameras, the SD15 DSLR (after almost 2 years delay) plus maybe […]

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Pentax 645D – is this the final version?

By PR admin | Published: February 16, 2010

Two pictures of Pentax 645D courtesy of Pentax Japan – this is probably the final version that will be revealed on the teaser ad (click for larger view): As you can see the back picture is slightly different from the one I published yesterday more buttons, different side cover. How do I know this will […]

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Pentax 645D is revealing itself slowly

By PR admin | Published: February 15, 2010

The Pentax 645D teaser is actually slowly displaying more details of the camera – now we can see the shutter release: The teaser started on February 9th. Six days later the progress bar is aprox, 1/5 of the way to the end. That means the official announcement should somewhere around March 9th-10th, 2010. There were […]

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Pentax 645D also gets a countdown

By PR admin | Published: February 9, 2010

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 […]

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New Pentax lenses and K-m2?

By PR admin | Published: February 9, 2010

UPDATE: this is the same Japanese magazine called CAPA that I covered over @ NikonRumors few weeks ago. Those are pure speculations/predictions. Here is another one from the same magazine  – Sony EVIL camera: and another one for the Sony Alpha series: A new Pentax leak on dchome.net (translation) – some new Pentax lenses were […]

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Pentax EVIL, 645D price rumors

By PR admin | Published: January 7, 2010

Two rumors from the world of Pentax: Pentax is expected to release an EVIL camera this year that will look exactly like the Samsung NX10. Pentax rumor #2: The medium format Pentax 645D will be released in March 2010 and the price is expected to be US$ 6,500.

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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): A back view picture of the Pentax 645D:

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More Pentax 645D details

By PR admin | Published: November 27, 2009

Some more info on the upcoming Pentax 645D: 39.5 MP, SD HC card, DNG format, HDMI. Expected release date: Q1 of 2010. On the same topic: according to this post on PentaxForums the 645D will be released in April, 2010. Pentax does not have plans to produce a full frame DSLR for now.

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Pentax representative: Full frame Pentax DSLR in 2010

By PR admin | Published: October 19, 2009

“A Pentax representative told me today at the Paris photo show that Pentax will release a full frame DSLR in 2010.” Source

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