The new Canon 7D is an APS-C camera with a street price of around
$1700 and a heavy feature set. So I guess the format isn't quite dead.
Paul
On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Christine Aguila wrote:
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Mark Roberts wrote:
paul stenquist wrote:
I don't think Pentax will HAVE to go full frame. The 645D will fill
the bill as a high end flagship.
Good lord, even the most wildly optimistic price predictions for the
645D have it costing roughly equal to a Canon 1Ds-III! As of this
week
35mm full-frame is $2000 and by this time next year it will be
approaching $1500.
I agree. Here I repeat a concept I've been stressing for years (any
of you remembering my discussions with Shel long time ago?), but I
haven't repeated over the last years, so it's worth doing now. In
my view, in practice APS is the "new" small format (which once used
to be 35mm film), 24 x 36 is the current medium format and
everything above that is large format.
I've seen magazine headlines read: "Is FF the New Medium Format?"--
which suggests there are others who might agree with you, Dario.
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