I'll bet the cost to produce a full-frame sensor is wildly higher than for the APS-C sensors (which are a pretty big chip compared to chips like RAM and CPU's). I'll bet for Canon to produce an entry-level full-frame camera the selling price would have to be near the 1Ds and nobody could afford them. This doesn't explain why Nikon hasn't introduced a full-frame camera, shame on them. Canon has shown that a market exists for full-frame cameras even with a selling price near $8,000.
Will Canon enlarge sensor sizes as time goes by? I certainly hope so, but we'll never escape the economics of silicon chip fabrication completely.
Mr. Bill
Bob Talbot wrote:
"The customer is always right" That seems to be forgotten by almost all the modern mega-corps of today, Canon included.
There will be larger format mass-market digital sensors for sure: but I suspect they will not be released until the current generation have totally saturated the market plce :o)
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