Originally posted by surfar Yes, that Niche has been a high cost up until this month.Very soon it becomes "affordable" to many that thought they couldnt.
Both ends of the camera market are niches. The camera market itself is a niche...
Yet I see cropped MF eventually becoming what FF was 5 or 6 years ago in product tiering and pricing.
After we have worn out FF like we wore out APS-C in terms of breadth of systems and lens types, the market will want something else to keep generating fresh sales. And if they keep wanting to one-up each other, what is the next step? I think a larger sensor.
This is where Ricoh/Pentax is in an interesting situation, because they already have a cropped MF digital system. Their issue, imo, is in the size of a MF DSLR.. its massive. Once we see more mirrorless designs the size of FF DSLRs, that MF is going to seem antiquated in the market. Unless they scale up the sensor size to a more truer MF size.
It is currently a push upwards for resolution as one of the more marketable features.