Originally posted by Pål Jensen Where is the data for this? Canon sell 7 million DSLR's a year. Less than 200 000 are FF. Ie more and more APS every day; not less. If I'm not mistaken they yearly growth is between 15-30%.
We had the above prediction three years ago if not longer. The opposite have happened; Canons fortune are the entry level models and the 7D. Mirrorless have had no impact on Canon (or Nikon) DSLR sales (but have had an impact on P&S sales).
Mirror or not has nothing to do with sensor size.
And there is no consumer FF body, only consumer quality of the hardware. They are out of reach of 95% of the DSLR buying public and that doesn't make them consumer oriented in my book. Nor are they getting any cheaper, just cheaper made but costing the same illustrating that it is the sensor that cost money and put limits on how cheap you can sell them.
yes, Canon sells a ton of cheap APS-C Rebels and also has a complete FF range from enthusiast to pro, their high-end APS-C line will go back to stopping at the x0D line like they did before. why? for the same reason Nikon stopped the D300 line years ago and created the D7000...
APS-C is now an enthusiast format. Today, pros and rich enthusiasts can afford FF, and nobody will want to carry an enormous, heavy camera (the 7D is bigger than the FF 6D and 5D!) just for an APS-C sensor. Did some pros enjoy the crop factor? of course, and that's why the D7000/60D is just tough and well featured enough for those people.
If you still don't believe me, ask yourself what happened to APS-H.