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> Please explain.

Not parent, but FF-lust is objectively bizarre.

Read this (now very old) rant on the subject [1]

Then consider advances in optics, CAD, sensors, and then marvel at why some people are desperate for an arbitrary sensor size that plucked out of the air more than a hundred years ago.

[1] http://www.digitalsecrets.net/secrets/FullFrameWars.html



I’m very much aware of it, believe me.

Nothing spatial in 35mm, it’s just that we have a ton of amazing glass made and bought to go with it.

And even though there are diminishing returns, quality wise, the more photons the better.

I’m sure they could make APS-C, Micro 4/3, 4x5”, to please everyone. I wouldn’t complain :)




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