--- david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm hopefully going to be investing in a few lenses > for my 300D shortly > and I'll be keeping the lenses for longer than I > plan on keeping the > camera as my 'main' dSLR. Eventually I'm going to > buy the 10D's > replacement in likely 2 years. > > So - is the collective wisdom of this group that > we'll see mid to low > level SLRs keep the 1.6 crop factor? or will the > sensor sizes migrate > more towards full frame like the 1Ds?
My opinion, and that's all it is, is that Canon aiming at larger and larger sensors as costs come down. They show no inclination to make a set of small sensor lenses, and consistently provide the largest sensor possible at a given price point. So I think you'll eventually see a new camera (whether a replacement for the 10d or an addition I can't say) with the same sensor as the 1DII but at a lower price point, and a 1DIII (or similar) with the sensor that's currently in the 1Ds. Nikon, OTOH, seems committed to the smaller sensor size, using it even in their highest priced digital cameras and introductin a set of smaller format lenses. So we'll have a situation where the "backwards compatible" Nikon F-mount is even more fragmented and incompatible, while The Canon EOS mount will work accross all bodies in the EOS line. With the anomoly of the low-cost "S" mnount lens for the Rebel as an exception. And I don't care how good an APS-C sized sensor can be, a full frame sensor of the same or larger pixel count is capable of being better. The only issue, in my mind, is whether the larger file sizes are worth the trade-off. But as cameras and computers continue to get faster, storage cheaper, and interfaces better, the larger file sizes won't be a big issue. ===== Bob Meyer I wish I knew what I know now, when I was younger... http://www.meyerweb.net/epson __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
