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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: kiah9318 on December 07, 2006, 11:03:27 pm

Title: Digital Back for Pentax 645N system?
Post by: kiah9318 on December 07, 2006, 11:03:27 pm

Hi,

Which brand of digital back that able to support the Pentax 645N AF or the older manual focus 645 system?

Thanks

Kiah

Title: Digital Back for Pentax 645N system?
Post by: RicAgu on December 07, 2006, 11:58:50 pm

ABSOLUTELY NONE.  NOTHING, ZIP, ZILCH, SQUAT,

You may want to look at the Mamiya for budget, the Hasselbald H3 system with digital or wait for the Rollei Hy6

Best of Luck,

R

 

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Hi,

Which brand of digital back that able to support the Pentax 645N AF or the older manual focus 645 system?

Thanks

Kiah
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Title: Digital Back for Pentax 645N system?
Post by: kiah9318 on December 08, 2006, 12:09:32 am

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ABSOLUTELY NONE.  NOTHING, ZIP, ZILCH, SQUAT,

You may want to look at the Mamiya for budget, the Hasselbald H3 system with digital or wait for the Rollei Hy6

Best of Luck,

R

 
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Thanks for your info.

Kiah

Title: Digital Back for Pentax 645N system?
Post by: abrehm on December 08, 2006, 12:41:55 am

Supposedly Pentax is coming out with a 645 Digital in 2007.  It was originally slated for 18MP but was scrapped for higher MP model to remain competitive.  I have high hopes for this model as it was originally predicted to be competitively priced with the high end Canon.

Title: Digital Back for Pentax 645N system?
Post by: tonypassera on December 08, 2006, 01:08:14 am

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Hi,

Which brand of digital back that able to support the Pentax 645N AF or the older manual focus 645 system?

Thanks

Kiah
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As far as I know, there is no digital back that works with these film cameras.
The reason is that they don't have a removable back, just a removable film
insert.  Pentax has been flirting with the idea of introducting a 30 megapixel
digital camera to work with their 645 lenses.  However, the Pentax rep i spoke to
at photoplus expo indicated that Pentax has not yet decided whether to
produce the camera.  I assume that they must have a working prototype,
but i've never heard any confirmation of this assumption.  I'm eager to
hear whether anyone reading this thread has any information about their plans.
Tony