I'm not planning to buy new equipment right now, but, as you know, one always thinks of buying.
What I also wonder: will full frame sooner or later replace APS sized sensors?
(I can hardly imagine how the tiny four thirds system will survive the next ten years).
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As of now, it really looks like Canon intends to maintain different sizes of sensors in their line up. My guess is that this has more to do with commercial than technical reasons.
- ability to maintain artificially high prices for the FF bodies. These high prices have little to do with the actual cost of FF sensors vs APS sensors,
- desire to be on what is considered by many as the top of the hill (mostly a perception thing),
- desire to provide a FF solutions for all those photographers who think they need it (some really do, many don't),
Many of the photographers who think they need FF would IMHO do themselves a huge service by acknowledging the fact that a high end APS solution would be a much better deal.
Since this is obviously not going to happen, my guess is that Nikon will probably release soon a body using a FF, or close-to-FF, sensor. Really sad in my book as I love the DoF and sharpness accross the frame I am getting from my D2x already, a 14 bits APS 20 MP D3x selling for 4.000 US$ would have been an absolute killer as a landscape camera. It will probably not happen though.
Cheers,
Bernard
