>
> There is nothing that makes 24x36mm "sweet spot" except for
> Canon's marketing strategy
and the huge supply of very good to brilliant existing lenses designed
for that format.
Bronek Kozicki wrote:
> Quoting Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Silicon is least part of price, it is yield that matters. And it drops
> exponentially with increase of size of sensor, thus making production
> expensive. Anyway, the cost should be dropping due to advances in chip
> production, but again I do not understand why stop at 24x36mm while 48x36mm is
> not really that much more expensive (as we already entered multi-thousand $
> price region). There is nothing that makes 24x36mm "sweet spot" except for
> Canon's marketing strategy - they do not exists in MF market segment and using
> "old" lenses is the only upgrade path for their customers. The same logic
> might
> apply to Sony, but it does not to Pentax. Personally, it annoys me that people
> see whole DSLR market through pink glass of Canon marketing department. Given
> obvious issues with wide lenses and 24x36mm sensor I do not see it as
> attractive alternative to APS.
>
> Someone who does not use wide lenses might not care, but given that Pentax
> offer
> is especially strong at the wide end, it should matter for Pentax customers.
> In
> other words, would you buy 24x36mm DLSR from Pentax, if pictures it takes with
> your lovely 31/1.8 or 24/2 or 35/2 or 20-35 would look good only in the centre
> of frame? I certainly would not. There might be some ways around this problem,
> but I do not think it is viable now.
>
>
> B.
>
>
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