Congratz Martin, splendid shot

I've asked the same thing some time ago
Here is the link: link

Yes sorry about that

What you said earlier is quite true Danny it's just this bit that is not right.
you have variable focal lengths = zooms
fixed focal lengths = primes

Telephoto only say something about the length of the focal length not more nothing less, so it can be zoom or a prime lens.
The ordering goes from:
ultra-wide, wide-angle, normal, short-telephoto, telephoto, extreme-telephoto.

Hopefully that explains it better


They will look the same but a prime lens is optimized for that range since it is a fix focal length so the image quality will be most likely better.

It will probable be more then €10.000 although if it would be near the €6.000 mark then the high-end FF cameras of other brands might have some competition.

If it is too expensive I'll just wait, you know how fast the price of digital equipment drops.

Thank you Martin.
I'm quite interested in MF so hopefully the 645D isn't going to be too expensive.
Good MF Film cameras are still worth quite a lot these days and from topics read over film vs digital there is not a lot to gain from MF any more so not worth the money in my eyes.
Still I've being thinking of getting a 6x7 and some B&W film for the special shots.

A bit off topic but I saw a 645 adapter for Canon which you could shift, now that would be interesting to have since the lack of tilt/shift lenses on the K-mount.

Do you have a link Martin, I tried to search it but couldn't find one

No not really Danny.

Telephoto
In photography and cinematography, a telephoto lens is a lens where the focal length is significantly longer than the focal length of a normal lens. For a 35 mm camera with a 24 by 36 mm format, the normal lens is 50 mm and a lens of focal length 70 mm or more is considered telephoto.

In addition to making objects appear closer then they are, the resulting image will also have a certain degree of perspective distortion.

The original meaning of telephoto lens was a lens with optics containing a telephoto group, that would allow the lens to be physically shorter than its focal length. Compare with the opposite effect used in retrofocus lenses, which have greater clearance from the rear element to the film plane than their focal length would permit with a conventional optical design.


Zoom
A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lenses whose focal length can be changed.


Simple
Telephoto = A lens with a focal length greater then 70mm on a film camera or 105mm on a digital crop camera (all Pentax DLSR).
Zoom = the ability to change the focal length of the lens.


This is different matter though since this more about the focal length then the definitions.
Focal length is something every lens have, you have had that definition at school!

The focal length is the point where all the light of the lens focus or defocus.
I'm sure this illustration will help you to remember.



To answer your question a 100mm prime lens (fixed focal length) will have a similar image (magnification) as a zoom lens set on 100mm.
But the image does not need to be the same since there are more factors besides focal length that makes the image, zoom lenses have often more distortions then prime lenses so that's why.

There are quite cheap Chinese ones on ebay, don't ask me how good they are since I don't know.

I'm already happy with a DNG codec, do you know there is one?

helpful link for those that don't have windows 7 link (RAW codec for the other versions)

You also have flash drive with eSATA connection, they will go up to write 30 MB/s - read 90 MB/s
OCZ Throttle is the name of those flash drives.

For USB the SanDisk Cruzer Contour is pretty fast (write 18 MB/s - read 25 MB/s) or Corsair Flash Survivor (write 20 MB/s - read 22,5 MB/s)

Another solution might be something like a western digital passport.
It's a small hard drive which has a USB connection and that's all it needs for his power and they are also small and go up to 1 TB now
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