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The big news this week – and it's great big meaty news – is that, in one bold stroke, Canon has reversed all the recent trends regarding full-frame sensors. With the naturally lean sales numbers of the super-expensive full-frame Canon 1Ds and 1Ds Mk. II and the recent discontinuation of the Kodak full-frame DSLRs, even full-frame supporter Michael Reichmann of Luminous-Landscape.com had declared APS-C to be "the new 35mm." The conclusion seemed perfectly warranted. Full-frame looked to be dead in the water.
Then came this week's announcement of the Canon 5D (unfortunately named, since it co-opts a designation already in use by Konica-Minolta). The C-5D, as I've unilaterally decided to call it, is essentially a "20D-plus" with a close facsimile of the 1Ds Mk.II's huge full-frame sensor inside (the new camera is actually more like 13 mp, but it's full-frame. You get the gist). It will split the difference in price between those two camera...

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