robblackett

Hower ever much smaller formats improve the same improvements will apply to FF (or to Medium Format, or indeed any other format). If what you are saying is that small formats are 'good enough' for ...

But in that case why wouldn't those same improvements be applied to FF cameras?  So the performance gap is still the same, no?

Of course and everything you say is true - when speaking as an enthusiast.  The majority of the markets are not enthusiasts and could not care less about those factors most of the time. The ...

You're not wrong.  But if (when?) FF is the same price as M43, how many people would prefer to spend their money on M43 rather than FF? The point is that the M43 pool is small and that pool is ...

You're right the Box Brownie never killed off higher end cameras. But then the images from Box Brownies and cameras of that ilk were generally quite poor and now images from phones are not only ...

For most people capturing an image is just capturing a memory. It might be better if it's a sharp and well exposed memory but that's it - it's not art, just a memory. So then that's now the vast ...

“Due to the high-performance of the 50mm APO, the contrast – the smooth focus contrast … mmm“, Peter Karbe takes a deep breath before he continues to explain: ”Okay, the contrast has to go up ...

I think you might be actually. Read the article that I linked to if you have the time / inclination and i think you'll find that the quality of out of focus transition was very much paramount in ...

So perhaps what you might appreciate is this? Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 http://www.overgaard.dk/leica-50mm-APO-Summicron-M-ASPH-f-20.html Only €6500 approx (plus a body you can fit it to)

I suspect you are being facetious but in case you weren't it took Canon about 10 years to build up their service network.

I don't think so at all. Given that no company can produce whole new lens range in one hit they've chosen the ones they have launched for good marketing reasons. You may not agree with or ...

Ah, but then that's listening to talk on this forum which may be the first mistake .........   😉

@David Schloss.
Yes I know who you are David and I am sure Barney appreciates you defending him. But Barney is a big boy, or should be by now and I expect he can probably do that himself.
You're...

@Barney. Yes you can win actually . And just to be absolutely clear I have no connection whatsoever with Nikon and never have, nor have I ever owned any of their products.
Nobody can object to a...

It was meant tongue in cheek as I suspect you know full well, even if the smiley didn't make it obvious.

However since you are obviously sensitive to what I said, good luck with your next meeting...

Ouch!
I do wonder if there are people at Nikon who are now thinking "Thank you so much for that!" And who are now considering 5 ways in which they will now reduce their advertising spend with DPR. ...

Gear matters to a degree. Your example of "I'll hand you a cardboard box and ask for a macro shot of an insect" is an extreme example but I don't think anyone here is really suggesting you go to ...

When most lens companies have similar access to similar software design programmes the real differences these days in lens design (other than cost and quality of assembly of the product) is not so ...

Ha! Yes I think we may just be getting into HiFi territory now. Who remembers the furious arguments between the spec measurers and the 'golden eared' brigade. It's probably still going on somewhere. ...

The problem with many of us in our 'fortune telling' is that we think far too short term and rarely if ever look beyond the 'camera technology' that we think we know about, let alone global market ...