Originally posted by bt*ist If they were giving away 645Ds, then sure, I'd get one.
But where would I find the money for a lens?
If they gave away a free lens I'd get one!!
But then where would I find the money for a second lens??
in other words : not so much...
I guess I can hope there's a trickle-down effect and all the good things will eventually find their way into the next generation of APS-C DSLRs..
The trick would be to pick up two or three used lenses asap and sit on them until you can buy the 645D with the new 55mm. A wide angle for landscape, I wouldn't even need AF, one of the manual ones will do (landscapes usually doesn't move so fast), and a short tele for portrait. Then I would have what I need to get started when combined with the 645D + new normal lens.
But as much as I'd love to get one I can't realy justify it economically.
But I might pick up those used lenses anyway, wait and see, get a used film 645 meanwhile, and then see what a used 645D might cost in 2012 or so. Maybe a used one as a 50 years birthday present in 2018? Big dreams takes patience.
In any case, I am looking forward to see what people will do with this camera in the nature and the studio. I have a lot of respect for some photorgraphers that used to shoot with the 645. And I have always dreamt of one (the first 645 was realy like a medium format version of the Super-A, my first Pentax SLR, so I'm sure I would have liked it). Doing my military service as a photographer and partly using Hasselblads made the love-at-a-distance
even stronger (never really learned to like the square 6x6 format), but was never able to put aside the money, still drolling over used film 645's on ebay
.