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This is quite a stretch - " Pentax will not come out with a FF body, because some percentage of DA Limited buyers who's lenses will not cover the FF circle will feel a sense of betrayal. "
It's interesting that you feel this way, and that also might explain some other folks seeming wish that Pentax not offer FF, but try to look at the upside to that - Hoya would be showing a real commitment to it's (currently small) DSLR division. You would feel more assurance that your favorite mount won't be going away altogether anytime soon. And you would have an exciting upgrade path available to you if you wish to take it.
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Here are a few of my favorite things...
---> http://www.flickr.com/photos/95095968@N00/sets/72157626171532197/
--http://www.alphamountworld.com/forums/sony-news-and-rumors/end-road-sony-full-frame-bodies/2010-7/6093
Be a slap in the face for Nikon FF users if they are the end of the line.
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This is quite a stretch - " Pentax will not come out with a FF body, because some percentage of DA Limited buyers who's lenses will not cover the FF circle will feel a sense of betrayal. "
It's interesting that you feel this way, and that also might explain some other folks seeming wish that Pentax not offer FF, but try to look at the upside to that - Hoya would be showing a real commitment to it's (currently small) DSLR division. You would feel more assurance that your favorite mount won't be going away altogether anytime soon. And you would have an exciting upgrade path available to you if you wish to take it.
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Here are a few of my favorite things...
---> http://www.flickr.com/photos/95095968@N00/sets/72157626171532197/
My PPG
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTIST&subSection=1471087&subSubSection=0&language=EN
My Photo Stream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awaldram/
Funny, that's pretty much what I think of "full frame". Outside the photography forums, not a lot of people care about it, and APS-C has long passed the point where it is more than good enough for all but a few specialized applications.
Huge difference between a super-fast-AF, smallish, $2300 D700 that can shoot the same lenses as an aps-c camera and a $10,000 (or $25,000, or $40,000) body that does not perform really well outside of pro portraiture, paid advertising and wealthy-hobbiest landscape applications (where it excels.) I think that before the 645D, the worldwide MFD market was something like 6000 units. Thom Hogan estimated maybe 100 or so 645Ds would be sold in the US in it's first year. MFD vs FF isn't apples vs oranges, it's blueberries vs watermelons.
He's trolling. Four posts until now, he joined yesterday, and immediately started this thread.
Late edit: I don't really mean to sound like I'm slamming the 645D, I think it's a neat machine and it was a gutsy move by Hoya to follow-through with that project.
And I don't mean to slam the "full-frame" DSLRs either. It's just that I think they'll become a niche as well, and not anywhere near as mainstream as the APS-C currently are.
Ah - secret info only told to you?
So, in other words, it will stay in the position it is now?
I do agree on this point the aps-c DSLR days are numbered but they wont be squeezed out rather phased out.
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That site is totally bogus and is less credible than most rumors site. He has no connection to Sony and has no info on alpha future than anyone else on this forum. Sony officially said the opposite. That they will release FF cameras.
awaldram argument is so silly, it makes zero sense. When Pentax release 645D, did all APSC lens owners felt betrayed and were crying? Of course not. According to awaldram logic, they did!
Really? In what country Kx and K5 selling more than T3i, D3100, D7000, 7D?
Don't put words in my mouth just because you fail to comprehend what I'm saying.
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