Pentax 645 Digital

[chug]

A new medium format digital camera, sounds nice :)

Pentax has today announced the development of an 18.6 megapixel 645 Digital medium-format camera which will be revealed at the Photo Imaging Expo in Tokyo from March 17th 2005. Details are thin on the ground at the moment but the current press release reveals that the camera will use a large format Kodak CCD with 18.6 million total pixels.

A little bit more info on dpreview.com (http://www.dpreview.com/news/0503/05031502pentax645digital.asp)

[Doug]

Wow! Good for Pentax! This should pump some new life into the P645 line. Is this the same sensor as the Mamiya 645 digital? That one measures 36x48mm as I recall; twice the 35mm film format dimensions. Imagine a digital RF camera with that chip...

[DougK]

Oh my, that would be a fun camera to have... as soon as I win the lottery and end world hunger :).