SRS Microsystems - £3299 Pentax 645z

Jeez Steve, talk about pressure! I appreciate the thought, but I've wrung the coffers dry with my M43 purchases.
Also, I've told myself that when I can produce images that make my APS-C D500 look limited, that's when I'll go for MF. I honestly can't justify it at present, the camera would be wasted on me.
But thanks for pointing me to it. SRS being Pentax specialists are on my hotlist.
 
Close to 5Div money when it was released. I love my 5D but I can also appreciate the even finer details of MF.

Great for landscapes, Thomas Heaton has been knocking some belters out with his Fuji.


If only there was a wildlife lens too, I'd be tempted.
 
Dale. said:
Close to 5Div money when it was released. I love my 5D but I can also appreciate the even finer details of MF.

Great for landscapes, Thomas Heaton has been knocking some belters out with his Fuji.


If only there was a wildlife lens too, I'd be tempted.
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It's another level.

The problem with MF and wild life is the lack of long lenses - and that is always a limitation - because the sensor is larger the field of view is wider for a lens of the same focal length.

EG the field of view at 300mm on the 645z is equivilent to 240mm on the FF format. A 600mm lens on a 645z would give you a field of view of 480mm on your FF camera but throw in the bigger camera, the consequentially larger lenses and it get's just too big. Then throw in the 3 frame/sec on the 645z and the very centered AF coverage and it won't work so well.

But for landscapes there is nothing like it.

There's stonking deals of the Fuji GFX100s at E-infinity giving you 50mp more than my camera and you can adapt your Canon lenses to this system, losing AF and adding some vigetting but you could make it work...maybe with static animals and focus peaking.
 
SFTPhotography said:
It's another level.

The problem with MF and wild life is the lack of long lenses - and that is always a limitation - because the sensor is larger the field of view is wider for a lens of the same focal length.

EG the field of view at 300mm on the 645z is equivilent to 240mm on the FF format. A 600mm lens on a 645z would give you a field of view of 480mm on your FF camera but throw in the bigger camera, the consequentially larger lenses and it get's just too big. Then throw in the 3 frame/sec on the 645z and the very centered AF coverage and it won't work so well.

But for landscapes there is nothing like it.

There's stonking deals of the Fuji GFX100s at E-infinity giving you 50mp more than my camera and you can adapt your Canon lenses to this system, losing AF and adding some vigetting but you could make it work...maybe with static animals and focus peaking.
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Maybe one day, for now though, plenty of life left in the 5D. It's still a better camera than I am a photographer.
 
Dale. said:
Maybe one day, for now though, plenty of life left in the 5D. It's still a better camera than I am a photographer.
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Nothing wrong with the 5d4 - they're a fine camera...but...if you pixel peep, you'll see the difference, and the files have bags of adjustability to them - even more than an FF file.

My only regret. Not doing it sooner.
 
Medium format prices will keep dropping. The original GFX will come down even more when the mk2 is released in October.

As for that CEX Pentax. I would be very wary. for starters it's B grade and you'll get no support or information from them as they have no idea what they are selling.
 
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