For me, the biggest advantage of getting a full frame body is one that I'm surprised that I hardly every see mentioned. It would effectively nearly double the number of lenses that I have. The vast majority of my lenses will work on a 24x36 sensor. My 31 will go from being a standard to a wide. Same effective focal length as my 20 on APS, but a lot sharper. My Sigma 20, already a FF lens, will become a much wider lens, if a bit less sharp in the corners. My 50s will become standards again. I expect that my DA40 should work as a wide standard. My FA77 becomes a short portrait lens, rather than a long portrait lens, and so forth. My 18-55, 16-50 and 18-250 will no longer work at the wide ends, which is fine, they can stay on the K-5.
It seems that almost every conversation about some camera technology is whether it is better than another technology. For me, it is not a case of which one is best, but what each one is best at. I don't see full frame versus APS as competing, but rather complimentary. Granted, by cropping, one can basically treat a full frame as an APS, but that's almost like saying, I don't need both my full sized van and a honda, because I can always just drive the van with just me in it. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
