![]() ![]() In fact, even today, older Pentax medium format cameras find ways to beat newer sensors.Indeed, a sweet, sweet lens. A true 645-sized sensor could find a way to beat out nearly everything else on the market in terms of image quality. They’re also still so small that there isn’t much difference between them and smaller, full-frame sensor cameras. They’re larger than full-frame digital, but they’re not 67-szed. Let’s be honest the mirrorless medium format cameras on the market today aren’t truly medium format. Disappointed by that? Well, you shouldn’t be. (However, the Digital Pentax 67 would be awesome if it could be manufactured on a large enough scale.) Instead, I think this would use Pentax 67 lenses and either a square format sensor or a 645 format sensor. That would be incredibly difficult to produce due to how sensors are made. I don’t think they’d actually put a 67-sized sensor in the camera. So maybe a Digital Pentax 67 could come about. However, I think they’d try to aim higher and get more serious. Personally, if they make a mirrorless camera that used the old screw mounts available and looked as good as these, I’d buy one. So, how could Pentax stand out? Well, I strongly believe they’re not going to create something beautiful like this burgundy leather Pentax camera or even this one with brown leather. That’s a tough thing to justify when no one makes a bad camera though. However, at the end of the day, they’re good cameras. They lack the innovations many other cameras on the market have. Pentax cameras have always had a fun look, but they’re not always a thing you’d want to buy. But they sure do know how to make their cameras look different. Unfortunately, they never entered the mirrorless camera space with any degree of success. ![]() They’ve known they can’t compete with a bunch of the other photo companies. Pentax has always been a company to do things differently. And for $24.99/year, you can have a banner ad-free experience. You can view this article and much more with minimal banner ads in our brand new app for iOS, iPadOS, and Android. If anything can grab our attention again, it would be something different: like a digital Pentax 67. But now, they’re starting to make an effort with building more factories. And the Ricoh company hasn’t done much with Pentax. Hoya more or less gutted them a little more than a decade ago. They haven’t made the monumental mistakes Nikon has in the past, but they’ve run into a lot of unfortunate events. There is no doubt in my mind that, if there is one company barely hanging in there in the photo industry, it’s Pentax. ![]()
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