Source: Pentax Japan website!

In an interview at photo.net Ned Bunnells once again confirms that the Pentax 645D will definitely be released in year 2010. The whole article is very interesting and confirms my very good opinion about Ned!

“Six months ago, we had brought back the 645D medium format product. It had initially been shelved shortly after Hoya took us over. As we announced in Japan, we were focused on getting some new cameras out, which happened to be the K-7 and the K-x. From a business standpoint, it was much more important for us to solidify our APS-C sized sensor strategy. We recently announced that now that we’ve solidified our small frame sensor strategy, we’re restarting development of the 645D and the target is releasing it sometime in 2010. As we get more firm dates, we’ll let everyone know.”

Message to Pentax, please don’t cheat us anymore…this time you have to give us that camera!

The British Journal of Photography knows the price of the Pentax 645D medium format camera. $8000-$9500! That’s  cheap for a medium format camera.

The camera itself should be release for the PMA show in Las Vegas alongside a smc Pentax-D FA645 55mm f/2.8 lens.