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Gone Fishing with the Pentax 645D
- Thread starter bensonga
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Hey everybody, it's Chris and Jordan from The Camera Store.
We're glad to hear that most of you enjoyed our video, and we really appreciate you sharing and discussing our product with the forum members. We want to take this opportunity to clarify some points on the camera itself and our day out shooting with it. The camera itself is designed to be incredibly rugged and can take pretty much anything except a complete dunking, hence the pelican cases to keep things out of the river, however it was a rain soaked day and we can assure you the camera is still working fine. Jordan and I certainly didn't feel like buying a waterlogged $10000+ camera ourselves but Pentax Canada gave us the camera to abuse and torture test, as they want you the photographers to see the high degree of build quality going into these cameras. In our opinion cameras are tools, not jewelry, and we really wanted to demonstrate what we consider one of the primary strengths of this camera.
As for the mirror, Pentax claims the 645D has an advanced mirror timing and braking system which slows the mirror down during it's ascent whilst the shutter is exposed. At moderate to fast shutter speeds this means that while the majority of the exposure is happening the mirror has still not finished it's accent. All we know is we could shoot decently sharp photos hand held even down to 1/8 of a second. And for the fisherman out there it was Cataract Creek in beautiful K country. Thanks again so much for getting us out there and for the feedback on our videos.
Chris and Jordan
We're glad to hear that most of you enjoyed our video, and we really appreciate you sharing and discussing our product with the forum members. We want to take this opportunity to clarify some points on the camera itself and our day out shooting with it. The camera itself is designed to be incredibly rugged and can take pretty much anything except a complete dunking, hence the pelican cases to keep things out of the river, however it was a rain soaked day and we can assure you the camera is still working fine. Jordan and I certainly didn't feel like buying a waterlogged $10000+ camera ourselves but Pentax Canada gave us the camera to abuse and torture test, as they want you the photographers to see the high degree of build quality going into these cameras. In our opinion cameras are tools, not jewelry, and we really wanted to demonstrate what we consider one of the primary strengths of this camera.
As for the mirror, Pentax claims the 645D has an advanced mirror timing and braking system which slows the mirror down during it's ascent whilst the shutter is exposed. At moderate to fast shutter speeds this means that while the majority of the exposure is happening the mirror has still not finished it's accent. All we know is we could shoot decently sharp photos hand held even down to 1/8 of a second. And for the fisherman out there it was Cataract Creek in beautiful K country. Thanks again so much for getting us out there and for the feedback on our videos.
Chris and Jordan
doug
Well-known member
My interpretation: the mirror upswing is well-damped, return not so. The guy felt the mirror "thwack", but the "thwack" is after the exposure.
Chris and Jordan, welcome to the forum. I hope you'll keep us posted of future developments with this camera... there seems to be a lot of interest in it and I can understand why. Great features and a very attractive price point. I also enjoyed your video. Looks like you guys had some fun shooting it.
GrahamWelland
Subscriber & Workshop Member
Certainly nice to see the Pentax being used like a rugged DSLR and not babied in a studio environment. That does seem to be a differentiator with it's weather sealing. I know plenty of folks who are scared to death to use their D3's or 1Ds's under those conditions alas.
Bill_Green
Member
I'm not sure this is really anything new. Pentax had mirror control pretty well dialed in on the 645Nii. I know that film is much more forgiving than digital, but even then several tests indicated that MLU had virtually zero effect on image sharpness.
bensonga
Well-known member
Welcome to the forum guys. I originally saw your video posted on the Pentax Forum in the Medium Format sub-forum. Surprisingly, there have only been two brief comments on it there. Obviously, there is alot of interest here in the 645D.
Thanks for an entertaining video and your clarification re the mirror/shutter comment. As a long time Pentax MF film user, I'm really glad to see Pentax come out with this camera.
Beautiful scenery there and I enjoyed the fishing angle too!
Gary