new Pentax 645D medium format with 50mp Sony CMOS sensor with video recording mode ?
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bitcrusher
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From a stills perspective it sounds awesome, it will be a affordable compared to other MF digital cameras but still cost 7K
From a video perspective pentax has yet to delver a good video DSLR and I doubt 99% of the people that want this camera would care about it.
645 is a nice format and I shoot quite a bit of film on my mamiya, definitely has a look especially when you use wide angle glass.
"Just when you thought the shallow focus fad was over...."
You can actually get the same DOF as 135 the fastest lens you can get in 645 is F1.9 most are 2.8-4
From a video perspective pentax has yet to delver a good video DSLR and I doubt 99% of the people that want this camera would care about it.
645 is a nice format and I shoot quite a bit of film on my mamiya, definitely has a look especially when you use wide angle glass.
"Just when you thought the shallow focus fad was over...."
You can actually get the same DOF as 135 the fastest lens you can get in 645 is F1.9 most are 2.8-4
Ted Ramasola
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I don't see a button to record video. 
NichxEstes
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Green dot next to AFI don't see a button to record video.
That sounds amazing until you see the max ISO is only 6400! So really what they are saying is 14 stops of DR from ISO 100 to ISO 6400. Still good, but not quite as revolutionary as implied. Anyway, thanks for posting this and I look forward to the DxO evaluation of this camera.
Hunter Hampton
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I was thinking about buying the older 645D, this is pretty awesome!
joe1946
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Samuel H
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so, it's not the green dot above, but the red dot down below
I'd also like to see some video samples, but I wouldn't be very optimistic: big sensors are slow to read, so I would expect aggressive line-skipping and therefore lots of aliasing/moire (either that, or horrible rolling shutter)
I'd also like to see some video samples, but I wouldn't be very optimistic: big sensors are slow to read, so I would expect aggressive line-skipping and therefore lots of aliasing/moire (either that, or horrible rolling shutter)
Greyfus Wolf
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the red dot button is for live view and the green dot is for recording I think... that was how it was like on the Pentax K3
Sounds like this could have 4K recording.... If they can capture the full DR of the sensor, this could be quite special.
http://photorumors.com/2014/04/09/t...ll-shoot-4k-video-announcement-on-april-14th/
http://photorumors.com/2014/04/09/t...ll-shoot-4k-video-announcement-on-april-14th/
How are they going to go from a 40-50 Mpel sensor to an 8k frame? I'll lay money that the video is a line-skipping aliasing moire-filled mess.
G
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Large format is not all about shallow depth of field.
I'm not technical enough to know that.... But if the sensor is around 8k wide... Wouldn't it scale down beautifully to 4K, much like the 4K C300 sensor scales down to 1080p?
Samuel H
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bigger sensors are usually slower, so this thing will probably line-skip like crazy
best case, for 4K, it will read half the lines, then downsample that 8Kx2K into 4Kx2K
the alternative is if it has in-sensor binning, which is a very neat solution (much better than line-skipping) but requires a specific design
or maybe they managed to make a super-fast and super-big sensor... but I doubt it
best case, for 4K, it will read half the lines, then downsample that 8Kx2K into 4Kx2K
the alternative is if it has in-sensor binning, which is a very neat solution (much better than line-skipping) but requires a specific design
or maybe they managed to make a super-fast and super-big sensor... but I doubt it
joe1946
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http://www.eoshd.com/content/12607/leica-s-medium-format-camera-feature-4k-video
Looks like 4K from smartphones to medium format this year !