Will it Make me more money?? or just cost me more money??
That depends on your style of photography and which way the various
advantages/disadvantages of the two formats effect it. From the
tone of your message it seems not, and there is no problem with
that, however there are different people out there with different
requirements.
It won't cost you any money if you choose to stay away from it, and
it could easilly make other people more money if the advantages
line up with their desired photographic style.
What can it do that I'm not acomplising right now??
Depth of field isolation for one - if you're style doesn't push you
to shoot with wide apperatures, then it isn't an issue for you, but
for those of us who do then it is a very significant one. Nikon
can certainly remedy this by making lenses with larger apperatures
(ie f2.8-> f1.8, f1.8-> f1.2, f1.4-> f0.9, etc.), however given the
choice it would be a lot less expensive for me to get full frame
bodies than replace my lens line. Naturally, I'll take what I can
get but that won't stop me from pushing for my desired solution
Either way, at this stage the vast majority of those lenses do not
exist so we are currently in the lurch until one of these paths are
taken
For you purhaps, but for others it does not. Naturally, we work
around the limitations that it presents to us and get the job done
- however our results would certainly be improved if we didn't have
to resort to work arounds. I'm certainly happy that the
limitations of the format do not effect you, but that doesn't mean
they aren't significant for others.
Of course it has to be said that there are certainly limitations of
the full-frame format that HF resolves - however for some of us
they are much less significant than the advantages. They are
legitimate issues, it's just that given my style they don't come up
as often as they do for you. I have no interest in belittling
those issues, just saying that my interests do not necessarilly
mesh with yours
The key here is that most people who want FF recognise that HF has
it's place and will continue to for the forseeable future. We
aren't asking Nikon to switch exclusively to the larger format, we
are simply asking for a suitable model to give us the choice.
Either that or get to work in producing more lenses that resolve
those problems with the smaller format - the 200f2.0 is certainly a
good first step, but we need a lot more before we pipe down about
it
With that said, I will certainly agree that this is not the time
for such an announcement. The professional cameras have recently
been refreshed, and the D100 has been without a refresh for a while
- a HF D200 makes perfect sense at this stage. Any move toward
full-frame will most certainly be made at the high-end first, and
given the recent releases it doesn't make a whole lot of sense at
this time.
