Pentax Launches 40MP Digital SLR Camera: The 645D

Remember the days when we thought 5 megapixels made for impressive stats? Well, you’ll be using that line on the youth of today sooner than you think now that Pentax has upped the ante with a 40 megapixel camera.

The 645D is a medium-format SLR camera, coming complete with an interchangeable lens system.

Being at the higher end of the spectrum, you would expect this camera to set you back a few quid, and it will. Around the £6,270 mark to be exact. Yes, you can choose between a camera or a deposit on a house.

The Pentax 645D is the company’s first digital version of the 645 camera range, and comes with the right hardware to support your 40 megapixel masterpieces.

Featuring a 44×33mm Kodak image sensor, you can expect a top-end resolution of an almost unfathomable 7,264 x 5,440. Better clear some space on your hard drive.

To store your happy snaps, there are two SDHC memory card slots, so you can use the second slot when the first is full- in about 2 minutes time.

This system also provides a back-up system, with the option to store your images on both cards, to safeguard you from a memory card failure at the end of someone’s wedding day.

It’s not just memory that can suffer with these high-end specs, but battery life as well. Pentax has thought of this though, and has built-in a lithium-ion battery capable of 800 shots per charge.

Of course, you’d expect some decent software with a £6,000 camera, and you get it. The 645D comes with High Dynamic Range for developing a composite image with an extra wide graduation range from three images, each at different exposures.

There is also Dynamic-Range Expansion to help you compensate for over and under exposed areas within the frame.

A unique Sensitivity-Priority (Sv) mode automatically selects the optimum combination of aperture and shutter speed for your selected level of sensitivity.

What’s the most you’d spend on a new camera? Leave us a comment and let us know.

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