I am always amazed at conclusions like that. Canon all ready makes a FF
sensor camera and lenses for it. It is $8000. The lenses that fit on it
will fit on the new mount. Canon is not "forcing" you to buy the lenses
with the new mount. You have a choice. Recognizing that a continuing
market exists for smaller sensor cameras that cost less than $2000 and
that give quality equivalent to 35mm and making lenses for those
cameras is not planned obsolescence. It is good customer service. Most
people will be quite happy with a 6 or 8MP smaller sensor without ever
going larger. Some may say that Canon's move is a little late in coming
compared to Nikon which has been making wide angle lenses geared to
their DX sized sensor for a while now.
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Aug 25, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Juergen Marbacher wrote:
>
> Luca A. wrote:
>
>> Moose ha scritto:
>>
>>> Although they will continue to produce higher
>>> sensor size true pro cameras, they believe the sensor size of the
>>> 30-60-10-20-300D bodies is sufficient and are producing a line of
>>> lenses
>>> for that size sensor.
>>
>> It seems to em a pretty shortsighted view, ignoring possible
>> development of
>> CMOS, CCD production techniques.
>
> Not at all, it seems to be a very clever view, revenue-wise. Forcing
> customers to buy another set of lenses, as soon as bigger sensor sizes
> might have become standard.
>
> jm
>
>
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