Re: OH ***! Nikon Announces Another Must Have Camera, The D700!!

All makers except Olympus have said they are going FF, just not FF
exclusively. I personally hope one of them has the guts to go bigger and
4/3rds and get away from the antique 35mm format.

"Wolfgang Weisselberg" <ozcvgtt02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <31e7k5-m6q.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wolfgang
Weisselberg <ozcvgtt02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Really? When will the sales of full frame DSLRs be larger
than the sales of crop DSLRs?

i'd estimate within five years or so.

Based on ... reading entrails?

based on industry trends and what customers want. it *is* going to
happen.

Ah sure, we'll all move to large format cameras. Just as we
did in the good old analog time, moving to larger and larger
formats.

I think you will find that Canon has at least 2 more full frame
DSLRs you are ignoring.

currently, canon has the 5d and 1ds mark iii.

And 2 more.

wrong. *currently*, canon has just two. the others are *discontinued*.

And the 5D successor rumored.

at which point, the 5d will be discontinued.

Ah yes, you have all the answers, though you may be
one-sides.

canon has older discontinued models, as does kodak and contax.

Which Kodak or Contax models are full frame?

kodak 14n, dslr/n, dslr/c and contax n digital.

No, they are not.
As in "currently, canon has the 5d and 1ds mark iii. [...] the
others are *discontinued*." --- by your standards, they don't
even exist.

pentax was going to make a

That's much worse than "*discontinued*", that's vaporware,
and isn't worth discussion, by your standards.

-Wolfgang


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