There may be no scandal in owning two manufactures systems, but there is
a serious duplication of effort, and cost. If I were going to have a
24x36mm sensor camera and a APS-C sensor camera, I think it would make a
whole lot more sense to buy into Canon, Nikon or Sony, and be able to
re-use a number of lenses and accessories between the two bodies. True
there would be some need for an APS-C W/A zoom, (or a dedicated W/A
prime, if you wanted a kit of all primes), but properly chosen you could
build a lens kit that would give convenient/conventional AoV for each
format with a minimum of duplication.
Dario Bonazza wrote:
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. That reflects in performance, pricing and
diffusion of the different formats.
However, since APS and FF are based on the same bodies/mounts (unlike
35mm and MF film systems), there's an unprecedented opportunity to
merge systems and reduce price gap. That's just a big plus, due to
more tech exchange between systems of different formats. Anyway,
needing two lens outfits for covering two systems still makes sense.
So there's no scandal in owning a K-7 and its relevant
lens/accessories outfit together with say a Nikon D700 and its outfit,
if needed. Why not? I believe that also building two kits within a
single make will require two lens outfits in most cases...
Dario
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