I held off buying into digital, waiting for Nikon to match Canon's sensor size. Finally I broke down and bought Nikons and lenses. Now I'm upset that they've introduced the nearly 35mm size format. Since I sold my 35 gear, now I'll buy Canon digital and lenses.
Please comment briefly on your thoughts on Nikon's move to offer a full-frame sensor and how it might affect your buying decisions in the future.
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Full-frame certainly is advantageous on the wide-end. Too, Nikon has thrown a lot of doubt into where they are going from here. From a buying perspective, I will be unlikely to buy Nikon DX lenses - not wanting to get "stuck" with a lens that is limited to DX format cameras.
I think Nikon must keep in-line with what it is doing -- market share dictates tha larger sensors do not mean better images. What Nikon has to do is stop playing patsie to Canon, come out with a digital consumer camera in the 20mp range to shut Canon down period.
Full-frame misses the point. It is an attempt to use old style (film) lenses on digital sensors. It appears only really good and really expensive lenses will work. I prefer optimized digital such as Olympus 4:3 which designs superior, but less expensive optimized digital lenses. Of course APS-C also has excellent optimized digital lenses too.
I look forward to my lenses performing as they would on a 35mm film camera. The larger sensor will either have more pixels or larger pixels. I like Nikon's approach of using larger pixels, which provide benefits in terms of dynamic range and low noise.
I have a Canon 30D, and I'm satisfied with it, but I always want the one that's better, the 5D. I find my cropping sometimes needs adjustment. Basically I can be happy with the APS-C sensor, although I may be less clear about the difference as I thought.