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03-03-2012, 05:06 PM   #31
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QuoteOriginally posted by Ryan Tischer Quote
With the 25 prime being $5K USD, I wonder how much the wide angle zoom would be??? I hope it's not as expensive as the Hasselblad 35-90!
It would probably cost just as much - designing wide angle lenses isn't easy and making them isn't easy either...the zoom could possibly cost more than the prime, and it will probably be a constant f/5.6

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QuoteOriginally posted by Pål Jensen Quote
I think that making a larger (FF) sensor for the 645D is the most important possible progress. A cropped sensor for 645 is much more of an issue than for the K-mount due to the wide angle issue. In order to go wide, and not terribly wide, you need to buy that $5000 25mm lens whereas on a FF 645 the 33-55 (or the 35mm), which I already own, goes wide enough.
Making it full-frame or as close as possible is the single most important improvement that could be made.
Having the availability of the existing lenses as a main selling feature is negated by the fact that the crop sensor makes many of those lenses useless for their intended purpose.
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Just look at how long it is taking the regular camera market to move from aps-c to FF. And that is in spite of a much larger user base and far greater sales volume. It doesn't surprise me that development of larger sensors in the medium format market is taking so long. But I do think Pentax should come up with a real 645 and it would seem from the design of their newest lenses that they intend to do so.

As for going to 6x7, I think the chances are very slim for now. Here in Japan the Pentax 645n ii has a huge user base among professional and enthusiast photographers where as the 67 user base is much, much smaller.
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QuoteOriginally posted by revdocjim Quote
Just look at how long it is taking the regular camera market to move from aps-c to FF.
APS-C is the new 35mm. The regular camera market is not going to move there.

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I think full frame would be great, both in terms of more MP and making the available lenses much wider (IMO this is where the current available lenses lack, especially zoom). As a landscape shooter, I don't really find myself needing anything much longer than the equivalent of 100mm in 35mm FF, and I think that wildlife shooters probably much prefer the 35mm for their speed and IS.
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Wildlife shooters actually like APS-C for the format size.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Yamanobori Quote
Wildlife shooters actually like APS-C for the format size.
Yes, you're right, many do. I'm sure some probably have both full frame and APS-C bodies, depending on whether lens reach or print quality is more important.

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QuoteOriginally posted by Ryan Tischer Quote
...depending on whether lens reach or print quality is more important.
???

If they crop the 35mm to get the framing of the APS-C, how does that change anything?

As far as print quality, it is a moot point. There really is no effective difference, at least to choose one over the other even when not cropped.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Yamanobori Quote
???

If they crop the 35mm to get the framing of the APS-C, how does that change anything?

As far as print quality, it is a moot point. There really is no effective difference, at least to choose one over the other even when not cropped.

Yamanobori, you're right... I don't think I got enough sleep last night (restless thinking about my new 645D!)
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QuoteOriginally posted by Yamanobori Quote
Wildlife shooters actually like APS-C for the format size.
Well Canon 1D iv with APS-H sensor is also very popular among them. That would pare well with 560mm/f5.6 I guess.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Yamanobori Quote
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If they crop the 35mm to get the framing of the APS-C, how does that change anything?

As far as print quality, it is a moot point. There really is no effective difference, at least to choose one over the other even when not cropped.
if the terms are equal. but until the D800 they weren't equal if you cropped FF to APSC before the 645 you got a much lower res image than a top quality apc sensor was capable of (ie 6 mp from a D700 vs 16MP from a D7000)
with the D800 the crop will give similar performance to the D7000 (or K5) so now they are equal footing, in which case the Ff is the better choice because it allows the best of both worlds (until that pesky 24mp apsc sensor body arrives then the inequity starts again)

certainly if you are a birder and need the long reach the apsc has had an advantage up till now. If on the other hand you shoot a lot of WA FFhas held the advantage. sure there have been some good WA lenses developed for apsc but show me a 35 1.4 or a 24 1.4 equivalent in apsc - you can't because it doesn't exist. neither does a 50 1.2 or 1.4.

With the fast lenses that have been developed for FF the narrow DOF advantage of a 645 system has been negated somewhat, but there are other reasons for shooting 645 (or 6x6, 6x7,6x9,6x12,6x24)
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QuoteOriginally posted by eddie1960 Quote
if the terms are equal. but until the D800 they weren't equal if you cropped FF to APSC before the 645 you got a much lower res image than a top quality apc sensor was capable of (ie 6 mp from a D700 vs 16MP from a D7000)
with the D800 the crop will give similar performance to the D7000 (or K5) so now they are equal footing, in which case the Ff is the better choice because it allows the best of both worlds (until that pesky 24mp apsc sensor body arrives then the inequity starts again)

certainly if you are a birder and need the long reach the apsc has had an advantage up till now. If on the other hand you shoot a lot of WA FFhas held the advantage.
Can you choose in the camera to change the settings? So just put a full frame 300mm on your camera and in one shot make a 36mp full resolutionshot and the next taking a 16mp cropshot? Otherwise you will end up making large 75 MB RAW files to crop out a part of the sensor for your little bird.
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QuoteOriginally posted by RonHendriks1966 Quote
Can you choose in the camera to change the settings? So just put a full frame 300mm on your camera and in one shot make a 36mp full resolutionshot and the next taking a 16mp cropshot? Otherwise you will end up making large 75 MB RAW files to crop out a part of the sensor for your little bird.
exactly, with the advent of the D800 the argument for apsc for reach is less relevant.
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Possibly but it makes getting critical focus more 'critical'. The bird will be smaller in the frame and couple with less DOF due to larger sensor I still think APSC will have some advantages
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Possibly but it makes getting critical focus more 'critical'. The bird will be smaller in the frame and couple with less DOF due to larger sensor I still think APSC will have some advantages
you realise in crop mode the D800 is pretty much a D7000 or K5 sensor (size and pixel pitch other performance may vary)
So if you put a 300 22.8 on the D800 it and put it in apsc crop mode it will be like shooting a 300 2.8 on apsc

read falk's equivalence paper and it will make sense

Previously if you did that on a D700 it would be more like using a k100 but with better performance from a noise/iso standpoint
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