Ricoh announced the $8,500 PENTAX 645Z medium-format DSLR digital camera, which features a 51.4 megapixel CMOS sensor, Full HD video and a responsive shooting experience with three frames-per-second.

Just a few months ago, there were no medium-format cameras with CMOS sensors. Now, it feels like you can't turn around in a camera store without bumping into one. Following hot on the heels of the ...

Medium format digital cameras are out of reach for most, but Pentax has been providing ones on the “affordable” side (under $10k), for a few years now. Their new guy, the 645Z, packs a brand new, ...

Until very recently, you had to shell out tens of thousands of dollars to get a new digital medium-format camera, and in some cases you’d spend that much on the camera back alone. And if you’re used ...

Following some recent leaks, Ricoh has taken the wraps off its latest offering, the Pentax 645Z medium-format camera. With the camera comes a 51.4-megapixel CMOS sensor, as well as a large hinged LCD ...

CMOS is the big thing when it comes to medium format digital cameras at the moment. Just ask Phase One and Hasselblad. Now, Pentax is updating their popular 645-series medium format digital cameras ...

Ricoh has scheduled the launch of the Pentax 645Z DSLR, the higher-end, medium-format successor to the Pentax 645D camera that launched in 2010. While many might say the price of this camera is set ...

In the olden days, format snobbery was a little bigger. Real photographers used medium format cameras, stuffed with big rolls of 120 or 220 film, and they laughed at folks who struggled by with little ...

Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 14 years, which has given me a front row seat for the changeover from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras, ...

Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus. I've covered cameras at PCMag for the past 14 years, which has given me a front row seat for the changeover from DSLRs to mirrorless cameras, ...

With the release of what is probably the first affordable Medium Format digital still camera by Pentax, it makes us wonder whether Medium Format video is a thing that makes any sense Pentax's new ...

The Pentax 645Z could have other medium-format camera manufacturers looking at its spec sheets and scratching their heads. Despite using the same 51-megapixel sensor as the Hasselblad H5D-50c and the ...