Medium Format HDR (in camera)

by Michael on March 9, 2010

Medium format, meet HDR. HDR meet medium format.

Pentax 645D Medium Format HDR (in camera)PENTAX 40 megapixel 645D Medium Format SLR Camera $9400 US Dollars

sensors Medium Format HDR (in camera)

HDR NOTES OF INTEREST
1. Shoots a bracket, merges to HDR and merges IN CAMERA
2. Single shot Dynamic Range Expansion to handle highlights and Shadows

Pentax has finally released the Pentax 645D which is a 40mp medium format camera. Rather than list the massive breakdown of the camera specs I’ll simply link the press release below.
http://www.pentax.jp/english/news/2010/201008.html

The in-camera HDR capture/merge function is of course of particular interest to me, but I’ve yet to find what controls one has (for example: amount of bracketing/steps).

Other noteworthy features listed (but no juicy specifics) are:

INTERVAL SHOOTING

EXPOSURE BRACKETING

EXTENDED BRACKETING

I’ll post more if I find specifics, but don’t get too excited.  The release is initially limited to sales in Japan only.

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Ralph Bell March 9, 2010 at 10:14 pm

Wow that is cool. But kinda takes the Romance out of HDR. Kinda like replacing corks with screw caps on bottles of wine.

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