Canon Rumors said today that the upcoming 1D Mark IV camera will still sport an APS-H sensor. See [url="http://www.canonrumors.com/2009/06/aps-h-is-alive-cr2/]here[/url].


I wonder what is the advantage of having the APS-H sensor anymore? Since Nikon uses a FF on their D3 for around $4500, I don't see FF is either hard or overly expensive to implement on such a camera. Even if a FF 1D IV is sold at around $5000, I think it will still hold its market.


[b]With a FF sensor, whenever you need 1.3x focal length on your lenses, just corp the image. But [/b][b]if what I have is an APS-H sensor to begin with, whenever I want 16mm from my 16-35L, I'll be screwed. In fact, I will never have any real super wide angle as the camera won't accept any EF-S or similar lenses!
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I will be quite willing to buy a FF 1D IV, not an APS-H one just like the one now. If that's the case I'll just get the 1D III right away now for relatively very cheap. I need to go from APS-H to FF bad, not to go from 10MP to 15MP in the same format!


<span style="color: #ff0000;"]Come on Canon! It's FF time now!


Please convince me if you think APS-H is still the way to go - I don't mind to be flamed as long as you have a good reason.


Ben