I think Rob Studdert can explain better than I why larger sensors cost disproportionately more than smaller ones. I believe the failure rate for large sensors is much higher.
The point is that if big sensors become cheaper to produce, then so will smaller ones. There will always be a significant cost gap, and as a result cameras with smaller sensors will greatly outsell cameras with larger sensors. Economies of scale for large sensor cameras will be very poor, so they will cost a lot to produce, and require a high selling price to make a profit. If you doubt this, look at the price of full-frame Canons compared to their other lines. John On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:00:16 -0000, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why do you think they won't bring out a ff body? > > And why would it be so much more expensive? If they get down to the > price level which would allow the non-professional makers (ie not > Canon or Nikon) to use them, then I imagine they'll be about the same > price as smaller sensors, no? > > -- > Bob > >> >> > If every other manufacture brings out a FF body Pentax will >> as well or >> > they _will_ _die_. Simple as that. >> >> But the others won't. Simple as that. >> >> And actually it won't affect Pentax. Any "full-frame" bodies >> would be >> much more expensive, and therefore in a separate market segment that > >> Pentax doesn't address. Canon would suffer from the >> competition, not >> Pentax. >> > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
