BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fozzybear" data-source="post: 1562054" data-attributes="member: 69297">Ouch! If I remember rightly the G5 I bought way back when cost about £300... looks like the G10 was under £400 so that's a big increase!No reason why you can't have an FF D-SLR with video and a pop-up flash, video is already on the 5DII and pop-up flashes were common on ff film SLRs. Just needs both to be fitted in one camera... I can quite easily believe Canon would do that, a 50D-like camera with a FF sensor that can do video seems a reasonable mix.I think it's more important for Oly with the smaller sensor as noise will be an issue much earlier, but there's certainly a limit to how many people would need something like the 15/21mp that the 50D and 5DII can record! I find the 12mp of my D300 just about right, plenty of scope for cropping, good level of detail but not so many pixels that the photos are cumbersome to edit or need stupid quantities of memory cards. In terms of APS-C sensors 10-12mp seems to be the sweet-spot.Am still amazed at the sheer quality of the images from the 5DII - how they managed to squeeze in 21 million pixels (even on a full frame sensor) and get that noise performance is mind-blowing!</blockquote>