On 03/01/07, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This arrived in my inbox. I think it was meant to go to the list > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bronek Kozicki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Full frame vs APS-C was: Re: PESO - Hertzlia Marina vs K10D > > > > Quoting William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> It will affect them to a certain extent, depending on the numbers. > >> Most people aren't looking past the megapixel count. > >> > >> OTOH places like DPReview will trash APS-C cameras as soon as full frame > >> becomes viable to > >> the general market, probably in the next breath after trashing the full > >> frame cameras for poor corner performance. > > > > has anyone seen "full frame" camera without severe vignetting with wide > > lenses? > > All "big" Canons suffer from this issue (to various degree), and > > apparently > > this is exactly why Leica M8 is "cropped" and not "full frame". If Sony > > goes > > this way, it is only for marketing hype. And as we keep increasing sensor > > size, > > why not go twice as large, to 36x48 (cropped 645)? I do not think that > > manufacturing cost of such big sensor would exceed $1000 .
B obviously hasn't looked at too many "big" Canon or Leica M8 produced images. http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/eos_5d (only currently 281942 sample images) -- 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
