Digital BW, The Print

>>Shoot, I'll just wait another an aditional year and but it
>>used for a
>>thousand:)))

>Might just drive the prices down on used 1ds models and
>possibly on new Mk2's

>Regards, Walt

More importantly for those of you who drool over press releases, it will
cause Nikon to hurry up with their full frame chip . . . maybe (they are
still at a price point considerably higher than Canon), and it will be
interesting to see if Minolta, Pentax etc rush forth in a foolhardy manner.
Canon still has to address their 1/4 success rate with their chip . . . if
there is a mad rush for this camera there might well be long delays . . .
that NEVER makes for a happy customer.

It makes me think of the viruses  . . . oops, excuse me, the "improved" OSs
we have had from Apple and MS over the recent years . . . put on the market
just to be ahead of the other guy, even though the product was barely ready.

When ALL the cameras available are full frame that will be a step forward. I
for one (along with a few thousand others) don't appreciate my
multi-thousand dollar wide optics like a 14 f2.8 suddenly become a
grotesquely overweight 21 f2.8 . . . that is not progress . . . it is BS.

Paul Aparycki