Great camera but will set you back $8,500.00 to $10,000.00 Now if photography is your living, especially studio and art gallery work, or you just want that nice of a camera then it is the ticket for you. Like their other DSLR cameras it is compatible with all of those 645 lenses of years gone by! Those old film lenses are fast and sweet. Check out this forum for some great info on that camera:
If you’re photographing your flies in the vise, get a tabletop tripod for under ten bucks, get it set up, and use your 2 second timer, so that you can hit the shutter release and not even be touching it when it takes the shot, and you’ll notice a huge improvement over handheld.
The 12x panasonic may be one of their “bridge” cameras, which have OIS, which, i believe, is a sensor-shift stabilization. It’s not quite as good as the in-lens stabilization found in many SLR lenses, but it is worlds better than boosting ISO and cutting resolution. In fact, sensor-shift is the method used in Sony and Pentax SLRs.
The 5x zoom was one of the big reasons I chose Pentax for my compact as well.
Right on, Kelly! I bought my W90 in late September…but considered it an “early Christmas present”. Don’t worry, I think there lots of life and good pictures left in our cameras!
Thanks for the info and links. Up until about a year ago I had the Pentax 645. 20 years of reliable eye popping photos. Nice to see they have decided to make a digital 645.
