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Full Frame vs APS-C Sensors
Petteri’s Pontifications has a great article on the fors and againsts of full-frame digital SLR cameras.
“My gut feeling when looking at what’s available now and what it needs to do is that the successor to 35 mm film is, indeed, digital APS-C. Full-frame is a little too hot (most lenses at most apertures and most focal lengths can’t quite keep up with the demands of the format, and the chips are difficult and expensive to produce, at least at the current state of the art), while 4/3 is a little too cold (Olympus has been forced to come out with monster f/2.0 zooms to provide even rudimentary available-light capacity, given the comparatively poor high-ISO performance of at least the current 4/3 sensors), while APS-C is just right—the sensors sharp enough and fast enough for almost any purpose, without putting too burdensome demands on the lenses.”
Website: To Full-Frame or Not To Full Frame?
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#1 Zoltan Arva-Toth
"Olympus has been forced to come out with monster f/2.0 zooms"
Oh man...! Essentially what happened is that Olympus managed to build the world's first-ever constant-aperture f/2 zooms - a great achievement, some of the most important in photography lately - and this man is trying to present it as if this was an exigency!
And as to being monsters... well the 35-100mm f/2 isn't bigger than the 70-200mm f/2.8 ones for the 35mm format, which have a comparable angle of view but are a full stop slower.
6:44 pm - Monday, October 24, 2005
#2 GARY POGODA
So are you in favor of full-frame sensors over APS-C?
8:10 pm - Monday, October 24, 2005
#3 AA
Shhhhhhh Gary don't get him started.....
For now, APS-C will do - it's much more cost-effective and a lot of us have bought lenses to go with it by now.
In a few years, when costs of production go down (hopefully - but with the world's economy being fooled by the fuel supply, who knows), as technology does improve, may be we can go back to 35mm size and be the merrier....
5:12 am - Tuesday, October 25, 2005
#4 GARY POGODA
Or ... as technology improves, full-frame may no longer be needed.
5:05 pm - Tuesday, October 25, 2005
#5 carpeicthus
Have you held the 35-100 f/2? I have; it's a lead weight. It's a fantastic proof-of-concept, but very expensive and pretty unwieldy in the field. I applaud Olympus for taking these steps, but I'm not sure how many people are going to buy that beast. Would have some use in indoor close sports like basketball if the Olys weren't so noisy.
5:00 am - Wednesday, October 26, 2005