Originally posted by Aristophanes Good point. Only Leica seems to get away with that.
Leica is a special sort of critter.
Quote: For Pentax, the allure of a digital FF is an SR-stabilised FA Limited primes.
I certainly agree there, only I'd extend it to "SR-stabilized primes". The big guys put it in long lenses, but not in their 50s, or 85s, or 35s, or what have you. SR+fast, wide glass== ability to take sharp image in light I can't navigate in
Quote: We'll go FF when APS-C runs out of steam and marketing says to engineering: "Time to go big". And the bean counters say "Here's some money, go big".
That makes sense, but do you really think that's on the horizon? I mean, 35mm never ran out of steam. Canon and Nikon didn't start making 50mm film cameras...
Quote: I saw a guy with a digital Hasselblad. I wanted to run up and scratch the lens with a dime when I actually saw him rub the lens with his sleeve, I kid you not!
ROFL! Lenses aren't as fragile as all that. Still, I wince anyway when I see something like that. But when I was assisting for commercial photographers, I saw the stuff they did with their gear and said, "Holy shit! They should be SHOT for that!" ( For a random example: I once saw a fellow TOSS a 350mm Rodenstock in shutter 8x10 lens at least six feet, into a foam padded case - and he laughed at my panicked look ) Then I realized that to a working pro - a daily grind, day-in-day-out, high-demand working pro - the gear is like hammers and saws to a carpenter. Failure is a daily reality, and you buy gear you can kick around because you *do* kick it around. Familiarity breeds contempt.