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Originally Posted by Raoul Isidro

Interchangeable sensors! Wow, the innovations just keep on pouring. A modular component camera would be very nice indeed! Cheers!

Aye, the Ricoh GXR. Dunno about nice though.

Dunno about innovation either as Minolta tried it over a decade ago and it didn't seem to get them anywhere. Seems like a load of hassle to get round having to clean your sensor occasionally.

I much prefer the interchangable lens compacts as you can fit extension tubes and stuff if you want. Also, would you fancy buying new lenses every time there's a new sensor development or improvement to the image processor? I don't fancy it anyway.

I think there's plenty mileage in APS-C digital as I believe other reasons APS film SLRs didn't last long was because they were rubbish and there was a limited choice in film up to ISO 400. The only APS films I could find to try on a compact were colour negative - it wasn't a format likely to appeal to slide film or B&W film users.