New Digital 31.6MP 645 MF Camera From Pentax

With PMA kicking off in March, Pentax has announced their plan to unveil a new 31.6PM Pentax 645 Digital Medium Format camera, including five new lenses and a dedicated auto flash. No specific pricing or release dates have been released at this time. According to the company the camera features a Kodak CCD sensor, should accept both SD and CF memory cards, and will be compatible with existing SMC Pentax 645 lenses. An SMC Pentax-D FA645 55mm f2.8 lens to be launched alongside the new 645D camera will also be made available. The new lens will also be compatible with existing Pentax 645 non-digital MF cameras.

Pentax will introduce three new Star-series digital telephoto lenses at PMA to be used with such cameras as the recent K10D and K100D, and a new macro lens. The Star-series lenses will include Pentax’s supersonic motor for quite auto focusing. Tentative release scheduled for these lenses is September 2007, and no pricing available at this time.

The telephoto lenses include:

SMC Pentax-DA 200mm f2.8 EDIFSDM that will have a 35mm equivalent focal length of 308mm.

SMC Pentax-DA 300mm f4 EDIFSDM with an equivalent 35mm focal length of 460mm.

SMC Pentax-DA 60-250mm F4 EDIFSDM with an equivalent 35mm focal length of 92mm-383mm.

New Macro lens:
SMC Pentax-DA 35mm f2.8 Macro Limited with an equivalent 35mm focal length of 53.5mm.

Finally Pentax will have the new Pentax AF200FG dedicated auto flash on hand at PMA. This is a compact clip-on-type auto flash unit with a guide number of 20 (as ISO 100.) No price or release schedule available at this time.

Image provided by Pentax.