On 11 Dec 2004 at 10:15, Bob Talbot wrote:
> > If photographers continue to
> > pay a premium for 1.3x and FF digital bodies, Canon
> > will continue to make them.
> I suspect that today the old arguments (justifying the size of the
> premium) have weakened a bit. I suspect there are other reasons for
> not wanting to supply bigger sensors (yet) to the general market.
>
> > If Canon made a 1-class
> > body built around the smaller sensor I think they'd
> > sell a ton of them. But at the cost of canabalizing
> > curent 1D series sales.
> They won't sell an affordable FF sensor until
> 1) the market is saturated with 1.6 ones
> 2) a competitor releases an affordabe FF (don't hold your breath, none
> of them want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg of new-mount
> lens sales just yet ;o)
>
> If they had released an affordable D1s (say for $2000) .... what of
> sales of EF-S lenses then?
But at the same time they risk a total-system switch....
And in that case, a Minolta with camera-side IS might be more
attractive....;))
Most interesting risk/challenge right now:
Pro's shifting to a 1.6x sensor....in the Mamiya ZX that is, with
36x48mm sensor.
It's only a tad larger than a 35mm pro-DSLR....:))
(and not even much more expensive, if the promises are held)
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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