The price difference in absolute dollars between FF and APS has and will continue to drop. As it gets lower and lower, the benefit/(price difference) ratio will get too high to make APS attractive or maybe even eventually feasable. Thats why there are almost no more 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 Mp point and shoots anymore. Simply not attractive/feasable anymore even though still cheaper to make than the 4.0 to 10.0 Mp models dominating the market. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Forbes Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:02 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Full frame vs APS-C was: Re: PESO - Hertzlia Marina vs K10D On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:17:37 -0000, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Forbes" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 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. > > 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. As you have yourself often said, most people buy on price, and FF is always going to be substantially more expensive than APS-C. Whatever DPReview and Ken Rockwell say, price will ensure that APS-C remains dominant. I have finally got my hands on a K10D. Wonderful machine. But I got it mainly because I found the D to be too slow when shooting RAW in the studio. The pixel count made no difference. John -- 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
