It's interesting. Everybody is thinking about their current collection of lenses. The current lenses were basically designed for a 35mm film negative. If film starts to fade away like VHS moving to DVD how long do we have to cater to the old generation? If Canon continued to sell EF lenses but everything new was "EF-D", you wouldn't be any worse off tomorrow than you are today.
Who is going to fund that new lens set you need to buy to replace your old one? I have pumped out over $10K over the years for lenses and cameras in the EOS line. Sure, this is like the switch from FD to EF, but I'm not going to make it. Call me old fashioned or a stick in the mud, but I have spent my wad. I am done. The only thing I want to buy now is a full frame digital body and then I am through. For a while... :)
There are comments about the confusion of focal lengths when switching bodies. If you look on ebay, it seems a huge number of people start using a digital body and the "backup" EOS-3 ends up collecting dust and on the auction block. Think ahead. Canon probably has to.
John Lovda
It's not confusion of focal lengths, it's conversion of focal lengths. I didn't buy a 16-35 "wide angle zoom" just so some doink at Canon could screw me and make it into a 25-56 normal zoom. I didn't spend $1700 for a classic portrait zoom (70-200 f/2.8 IS) just so it could be made into a tele zoom that was worthless for making portraits. I could keep going through all 11 of my lenses and the reason I bought them and why they would no longer be useful for the reason I did buy them if I went with a smaller sensor digital. I hope you have gotten the point though.
Think ahead? Who says making sensors smaller is better? I have only seen the reverse stated. The more pixels you cram onto a sensor, the more noise. Making lenses smaller doesn't inherently make them better. Lighter and smaller, yes, better is not guaranteed. Why do people always think that smaller is better or is more forward thinking?
What is so bad about making a full frame 35mm digital SLR? Why are some people so ready to give up on full frame sensors and 35mm format? It's a proven format in more ways than one. We have had several formats smaller than 35mm that didn't make it because the resolution wasn't there. What do we have to give up for a smaller digital sensor that is APS sized or smaller?
I would rather be able to make larger prints with a 14-20MP 35mm full sensor camera than smaller prints from a smaller sensor camera. Think of it, 35mm size with medium format print scalability. Now that is down-sizing!
Heck, if it was cheap enough, I would buy a 6x6 medium format digital camera if they could make it full frame! Still wouldn't sell my Rollei though.
Cheers, Rick H.
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