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Pentax has revived plans to launch its long-awaited 645 Digital medium-format camera, four years after a mock-up was first shown.<\/p>\n

The camera will go on display at the Photo Imaging Expo show in Tokyo later this month, said John Carlson, product marketing and support manager at Pentax USA.<\/p>\n

He told Amateur Photographer<\/em> that the 645 Digital is expected to go on sale in Japan.<\/p>\n

However, it is unclear whether the camera will be sold in Europe.<\/p>\n

And Carlson told us that it will not be marketed in the United States because Pentax predicted it would only sell 200 units there.<\/p>\n

We understand that Pentax Japan has decided to aim the camera at the high-end market, so it seems unlikely it will be an affordable, enthusiast-level, model.<\/p>\n

Last year, Pentax appeared to have scrapped<\/a> development of the camera.<\/p>\n

A press report in Japan had suggested that ‘developments of the new camera body introduced on various occasions, as well as the SMC Pentax-D FA645 55mm f\/2.8 will be virtually discontinued’.<\/p>\n

Only a dummy version of the camera has been shown to journalists – paraded at numerous trade shows since it was first mooted at Tokyo’s Photo Imaging Expo show in March 2005.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, no-one from Pentax Europe was available for comment at PMA.<\/p>\n

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