| ▲ | Espressosaurus 6 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
It's a market problem. If I could get the lenses I wanted in APS-C format, I'd have an APS-C camera as my main camera. Instead the market has chosen for full frame to be the main place investment is done in, so I get a full frame camera since the APS-C cameras and lenses are second-class citizens (not true for Fuji, true for Canon, Nikon, and Sony). Medium format explodes the cost and again, the lenses I want aren't even available. So you go for what you can get, given the marketplace and also given the lens system you have bought into. I doubt anyone is going wildlife shooting with a large format camera, for example. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tristor 6 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> I doubt anyone is going wildlife shooting with a large format camera, for example. Not with true large format, but with the new Fuji medium format cameras it's starting to become reasonably possible to do faster work like wildlife at larger format sizes. The main issue remains, which is sensor readout speed, but the technology has gotten so much better that you can get results with things like birds-in-flight that are comparable to a FF DSLR camera from 10 years ago, with MF now, as far as speed, but at 3x-5x the effective resolution. Cost is still prohibitive though, I recently upgraded and really considered the new Fuji 100MP MF line, but ended up with a Nikon Z8 in the end for wildlife. On my next iteration, I'll probably bite the bullet and go MF. If I could double the resolution and get similar speed, it'd be worth it, IMO. Especially at the sizes I typically print | |||||||||||||||||
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