Originally posted by germar The digital 645 is truly and amazing camera. My question: could a legacy 645, loaded with a still currently available film stock, produce such images? Or does the high ISO of the D645 make this something the old 645 could never approach?
I've never shot medium format film, so I don't speak from experience, but I do remember seeing a comparison between a 645 film scan and the 645D file, and in terms of print quality/image clarity the 645D won solidly. I don't recall what film was being used, but I believe it was a lower ISO, like 100, and was being compared to the 645D at the same ISO, so a fair comparison.
Again, not my results, just what I remember from reading the article, so please don't tear my head off if you've found otherwise based on your own experience.
What I can say from experience is that you can REALLY push the 645D files, especially bringing up the darks, with very little noise compared to my experience with other digital cameras (Canon 5D mark II). The 645D also has a very natural look to the files that I never found in Canon.