02-25-2013, 04:36 PM
When I look at this stuff, I start wondering where this sensor pixel density race will end? An APS-C sensor is only so big. At some point, we are going to reach a physical limit to the die process and/or there will be more loss then gain to adding more photo sensors.
Lets face it, when you have the same pixel density on a FF sensor as you do on a APS-C sensor, any advantage to the 1.5x crop factor is mostly gone. Provide an in camera crop or post crop.
I know we are going to get into the frame rate and buffer size thing. That can all be over come, by just reading out the photo sensors that make up the APS-C area of the FF sensor. The tech is there now to do this.
It is very obvious the production costs of the FF sensor has dropped sufficiently over the last two years, since the last refresh round. In two more years, the world should look different again.
Lets face it, when you have the same pixel density on a FF sensor as you do on a APS-C sensor, any advantage to the 1.5x crop factor is mostly gone. Provide an in camera crop or post crop.
I know we are going to get into the frame rate and buffer size thing. That can all be over come, by just reading out the photo sensors that make up the APS-C area of the FF sensor. The tech is there now to do this.
It is very obvious the production costs of the FF sensor has dropped sufficiently over the last two years, since the last refresh round. In two more years, the world should look different again.