Judging by the replies to my question, the one major shortcoming that would be addressed by going to full frame is that it would be a larger viewfinder that would make focusing easier. Conversely, for the same Field of View, we would be using longer lenses which would make focusing that much more critical. I suspect that autofocus position accuracy might be improved because there would be room for more AF points, or conversely, they could be physically further apart.
It seems that a full frame camera would have the potential give us incrementally better image quality photos, but I don't think that it would save many photos that would otherwise be lost with an APS sensor. Mind you, unless there is some majorly craptastic problem with them, I'll be placing my order about as soon after they are available as I can afford one, and I am pretty certain there isn't a huge design flaw. It is also interesting that for a large number of our members, going to a camera which happens to have a smaller sensor has enabled them to get a lot of photos that they would have otherwise missed with an APS DSLR (if only because they had the smaller camera with them). I will say that going back and looking at photos taken on film has been very educational. So many photos that 20 years ago I was perfectly happy with, barely pass my current standards of technical acceptability. -- 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.
