Originally posted by biz-engineer If you take photos with a full frame DSLR and ILC, you are most likely someone who don't mind much about camera size and who is passionate enough by photography to have upgraded from an apsc DSLR.
That the way I see pretty much all people around me over the last decade.
All the people I know that brought a camera recently, most are interrested to get better photos. Often for something important in their life like a baby or a nice trip in a far away place. Some even took a whole sabatical year to visite the whole world, while some other just did it for 3 month. The budget for this kind of stuff can actually be huge, in the €10K-30K range.
Almost none go past the kit lens. Only one is caring of what an FF body can do and that he learned in forums mostly and he didn't got one, his wife would have killed him to spend money that stupidly when they got a second baby. So basically he has an APSC Canon body and borrow lenses from time to time on the photography group of the company.
Half of the people brought a mirrorless body advertised to be as good as a DSLR but much smaller. All except one or two got the entry level body. None got an FF. One borrow lenses from me on the occasion, another one got some cheapo MF lens when he need a wide apperture and one was thinking to buy maybe a basic 50mm prime. The most advanced guy except me got a Nikon APSC + 18-35 from sigma and a 70-300 from forum advices. He then realized this was crap advice as it is more important to have a fast apperture un the 35-85mm range than in the 18-35mm range.