Pentax 645Z Pro Reviews

The Pentax 645Z offers the incredible resolution and large sensor of a medium format system at a price that's a third that of the competition. It's an easy pick for our medium format Editors' Choice camera.

The Pentax 645Z offers the best value for money for a 50 megapixel medium format camera available, and is one of the most affordable high resolution cameras available offering such a high resolution. Whilst nearly £7000 for the 645Z body may seem quite a lot in the digital camera market, it is much less than the competition with the nearest competitor, the Hasselblad H5D-50c available from £18,700. For those that need the highest resolution possible, the Pentax 645Z is an excellent option, offering a high resolution 51.4 megapixel sensor, along with Digital SLR styling that makes it relatively easy to pick up and start shooting. For those that want a high resolution but can not justify the price of the camera, then the Nikon D810 and Sony Alpha A7R offer much more competitively priced options, albeit with a lower resolution of "just" 36 megapixels. To get the best out of the camera, we would recommend shooting RAW, as the default colour options on the camera can produce high contrast images, as well as overly saturated images. It's also possible to extract more detail from images, as well as produce images with less noise visible when shooting raw. Noise performance is good and the camera features full HD video recording, along with a lot of user-friendly options to improve the dynamic range recorded by the camera. As the camera offers an impressive range of features, a high resolution sensor, and is very competitively priced, we would highly recommend the Pentax 645Z.