On 03/01/07, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The price difference in absolute dollars > between FF and APS has and will continue > to drop. As it gets lower and lower, the > benefit/(price difference) ratio will get > too high to make APS attractive or maybe > even eventually feasable. Thats why there > are almost no more 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 Mp point > and shoots anymore. Simply not attractive/feasable > anymore even though still cheaper to make than > the 4.0 to 10.0 Mp models dominating the market.
The pertinent consideration of course is that the now defunct resolution sensors would have used a similar silicon area to those by which they were replaced. FF and APS sensors will always differ in price by at least the value of area of silicon that they utilize. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
