Or is the 1.5 crop here to stay forever, as a sort
of 'new format' along with a smattering of 'D' lenses?
I think we are already in face of creating new standard for DSLR. It doesn't
matter what is better os what provides ability to use 35 mm lenses as it was
before. Sales figure rule here. Right now various manufacturers sold a few
millions APS-C DSLRs and maybe a several thousands of FF ones. The situation
looks exactly like it was before II WW, when 35 mm was laugh at as worse and
less professional, but thanks to lower price and popularity it became very
soon informal standard. And so far it seems to me that we are facing similar
change, at least until someone produce FF DSLR for less than 1000 USD.
Actually, given the current price of the Canon EOS 5D, and the rates at
which prices have dropped for DSLRs up until now, I'm not sure it will
be that long.
- Toralf
