> > From: "Digital Image Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/01/02 Tue PM 01:55:09 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: Full frame vs APS-C was: Re: PESO - Hertzlia Marina vs K10D > > On 03/01/07, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The price difference in absolute dollars > > between FF and APS has and will continue > > to drop. As it gets lower and lower, the > > benefit/(price difference) ratio will get > > too high to make APS attractive or maybe > > even eventually feasable. Thats why there > > are almost no more 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 Mp point > > and shoots anymore. Simply not attractive/feasable > > anymore even though still cheaper to make than > > the 4.0 to 10.0 Mp models dominating the market. > > The pertinent consideration of course is that the now defunct > resolution sensors would have used a similar silicon area to those by > which they were replaced. FF and APS sensors will always differ in > price by at least the value of area of silicon that they utilize.
I estimate that differential to be about 0.32 Ukrainian Coupons. In other words, about 1/5th of sweet FA. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
