Originally posted by rvannatta seems to me those wanting an expensive larger format camera should quit talking
about a scrawny 24x36 and acknowledge bigger is better, and hop a plane for
japan and get in line for the 645D. the 35mm format was conceived as a way to take
single shots on movie film which was plentiful. the reason (pentiful 35 mm film) for that format is gone, so why is the format sacred.????
while the 645D is perhaps more expensive now that possibily a so called FF (which we used to call a miniture) its price is about what the rumored price of the first Pentax digital
(never produced) was. If the hundreds of thousands who want high photo quality now
at a higher price would all line up in japan and get a 645D, the overwhelming success
of the product will allow the price to work its way down, and it will always produce a better
picture than can be expected from the FF. the 645D is the FF killer, you all demanding an ff as so hung up on a particular size that you have forgotten that bigger is better, and that Pentax has outflanked the canikons with it. They have jumped right over their head
and now they can nail the coffin shut by driving the 645d price down to match that
of a FF, and putting a 6x7D ontop the heap for those who really want high resolution
photos.
The 645D is a completely different tool, does not "kill FF" at all (because it doesn't offer the capabilities or tools available for 35mm format), and wouldn't eliminate the market for FF if it sold for $2,000, much less $9,400. Different cameras for different purposes. Pentax hasn't "outflanked" competitors with the 645D, they've
added some more competitors, i.e., Hassleblad, Mamiya and Phase One, not to mention Leica. By your ridiculous logic, I guess Pentax should stop production of APS-C dSLRs as well, since if the 645D "kills FF," it absolutely
annihilates APS-C. :ugh: