The Pentax 645 digital is a thing of legend, that is for years there have been rumors of it’s possible existence but time and again it has failed to materialize.

Back in 2005 it was going to be an 18.6 megapixel camera,

Pentax 645 digital prototype (photo from Amateur Photographer.co.uk)

a year later it had changed shape.

Pentax 645 digital prototype (photo from Amateur Photographer.co.uk)

By 2007, there were plans that the camera would now have a 32 megapixel sensor but it looked uncertain whether it would make production. By 2008 the general consensus of fellow Pentaxians seemed to be that the camera would never see the light of day.

Then yesterday a post appeared on the website Amateur Photographer.

PMA: PENTAX REVIVES MEDIUM FORMAT DIGITAL CAMERA PLAN (UPDATE)

If you will allow me to steal from Mark Twain…

It appears that  the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated.