{"id":635,"date":"2015-06-04T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2024-03-02T17:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:03:47","slug":"why-the-pentax-645d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/why-the-pentax-645d\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Pentax 645D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I laid awake wondering why I bought the Pentax 645D. I remembered it had something to do with it being the most affordable digital medium format camera (albeit with a cropped sensor). Back when the 645Z was not available yet, nor the Canon 5DS R (a viable alternative to medium format if you are heavily invested in Canon gear, as I was). And: there is a beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/smc-pentax-645-ls-14-135mm\/\">longish leaf shutter lens<\/a> available for it (advantage Pentax over Canon).<br \/>\nIt felt like time to shoot a little test image to refresh my memory and rekindle my love for the 645D and its beautiful 40 megapixel CCD with&nbsp;no&nbsp;anti-aliasing filter. I shot a small vase with some flowers on my kitchen table using the 645D and Pentax 90 mm macro.<br \/>\nSo, why did I buy the Pentax 645D? Here is my testshot:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-636\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150603_IGP7988-Vase-with-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Vase with flowers\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vase with flowers &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And here is why:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150603-detail-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Vase [...] detail crop\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vase [&#8230;] detail crop &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did I buy the Pentax 645D again? A short recap with \u2018proof\u2019 in the photographs. Or, now that I look at it again, maybe no proof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medium-format-digital","category-pentax-645d","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}