Yeah, we've now flooded this place with inane comments. I mean, I do go pray at the porcelain temple several times a day, but at least my offerings there get flushed away - here they stare me in the face whenever I come back; autoerase might be a good idea for some threads.
Edmund
No, you're being too harsh on yourself. All anyone can do is offer their best opinion with the knowledge available. You, at least, have some real technical knowledge whereas I have only desires and memories of what worked for me back them. And would still today, had I not gone throught a full-blown male menopause. Thing is, at least I'm capable of 'fessing up and recognizing it for what it was.
Were these different manufacturers of cameras able to sit down together, have an honest chat about format, file-type, etc. etc. they would be able to come up with a sensible set of parameters that would make it easier for the lot of them to operate within a sytem of sanity rather than one of anarchy, as we have today. How hard is it to understand that all of them - and many more - were able to compete and do reasonably well before digi came aknocking?
Film was a lingua franca for all camera makers, allowing them to get on with the core business of making cameras, nothing else needed or hanging around and costing R&D and distraction.
We already have the old 135 format that everyone has adopted, by and large; ditto the lens lines. If Sony and whoever else is playing will agree to standardize on a set of format sizes, then the future becomes clear and easy to manage for the camera bodies, lens designers/makers and also the sensor makers themselves. We simply don't need the divisive influence of all of these competing semi-formats: they aren't doing anyone any good. I'm sure that were a standard set of formats agreed, we could soon see the introduction of revolving back 6x4.5 or even 6x7 bodies. The money you don't spend messing about with sub-species you can devote to other purposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XmXJOqOCWwNot exactly my theme, but he makes some close and sensible observations.
Rob