---- William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mike wilson"
> Subject: Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > On past evidence, professional photographers will buy and use precisely 
> > what their customers tell them to.
> >
> I'm calling bullshit on this one Mike, though I did have a bride's father 
> once express mild disdain because I was shooting his daughter's wedding with 
> a Pentax rather than a Nikon or Canon.
> This was very much the exception.

As, I think, is wedding photography very much the exception because the 
photographer meets joe public instead of some corporate geek.

> 
> Professional photographers will shoot what they need to shoot to create 
> images that are competitive within their marketplace.
> If that morphs into 135 format, then that will become the defacto 
> professional format and anyone who doesn't make a 135 camera will be an also 
> ran.

Precisely my point.  If your customer, the big corporation that you make most 
of your living from, demands 25-30Mp files you have no choice but to go to a 
larger sensor.  I seem to remember this (demanding of larger files that were 
able to be supplied with existing equipment) happening to at least one person 
here in the past.

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