Digital Home Thoughts: Is the Full Frame Sensor Here to Stay?

"In the wake of the introductions of Nikon's first two "full-frame" (FF) (~35mm sensor size) cameras, to add to Canon's two, the internet is awash in prognostications that "full frame is the coming thing" (or "the whole market is moving that way" or one of several other common phrasings). And that might be true...unless it isn't. It's equally possible that 35mm-size (~24x36mm) sensors will end up as an historically momentary diversion, an evolutionary dead-end; or a constant but smallish niche. In which case(s), full-frame won't have been the coming thing. So which is it? Impossible to tell. I mean literally impossible: the uncertainty is epistemologically absolute. No one knows what the future is going to hold in this regard. That doesn't stop it from being a fascinating question."

Why do I want full frame - well so that the lenses that I buy actually turn out to give me the focal length that I paid for. I am positive that my next camera (most likely the Canon 5D update, unless Canon really screws up on the feature-set) is definitely going to be a full frame. There is also the depth of field argument that the article lays out which is quite tue. I would recommend reading the article, especially the hilarious telephoto lens theory. :-)