Reducing focal lens typically results in a smaller image circle. Keeping the image circle in the usable range makes wide-angle lens designs more expensive and more prone to aberrations, softness, ...
In other words, it should be easier/cheaper to design a 24mm lens for say APS than for 35mm. Apart from everything being smaller, an *effective* 24mm focal length for APS should be just about as expensive as a 24mm for 35mm. Think of everything being smaller, scaled down. When Canon introduced their EFS line of lenses, suddenly they were able to sell a consumer 17-xx lens for $100 (well sort of, bundled). Compacts don't have these reflex mirror issues, so it should be even easier to come up with a wide-angle lens design (perhaps shorten the lens/film plane distance even more). > >I think it's a marketing thing, not a technology thing. It is purely as marketing thing. Lars -- .~. Lars Michael /V\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /(_)\ http://www.larsmichael.com/ ^^ ^^ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
