On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Desjardins wrote: > >> Some do need all the sensor they can get. But I agree that the only >> reason for most people to need a FF sensor is wide angle performance and >> not resolution. > > I'm not so convinced by the wideangle advantage. So far, you can get an > excellent APS DSLR and an excellent digital wideangle of your choice for > less than a FF body alone, with the additional side result of extending your > current outfit at the long end. > Things can change, but in case FF price will drop so much and everybody will > buy FF, you'll have to take care of edge performance of your old wideangle > lenses, with the risk of no longer accepting their performance and then > ending cropping images back to APS or the like. Remember, gone are the days > when we guessed and judged image quality by projecting curved slides on wavy > screens... > > Dario >
No DX wideangle can match the performance of Nikon's 14-24 f2.8G lens, and there's no option on APS for wider than a 15mm-e (16mm-e for Canon shooters, 14mm-e for 4/3rds) while you can go as wide as 12mm on FF with the surprisingly good Sigma 12-24. In the 20mm range the 21 Distagon simply destroys all other options for performance (even the incredibly good 14-24 can't touch the Distagon) You can get very good wide-angle stuff with APS-C, but the FF stuff still has a performance advantage, especially in lower light where the f2.8 of the 14-24 or a 14mm prime is a large advantage. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
