danger smells like clean socks

For some reason, I've been wanting to go out and start taking pictures again. I was looking at some digital cameras online (noteably the D60 and the 10D). I was seriously thinking about saving up for the 10D when I noticed this tidbit:

The EOS-10D has a metal EF mount and thus supports all Canon EF group lenses (plus some older as manual focus and compatible third party lenses), remember that because the sensor is smaller than a 35 mm frame all lenses are subject to a field of view crop (focal length multiplier) of 1.6x, thus a 28 mm lens provides the same field of view of a 44.8 mm.

Whoa, nelly. That really sucks.

Then Borst reminded me that if I wanted a full-35mm CCD, I'd have to pay $11,000 for the other Canon camera...

Of course, this led to a discussion between Borst and I of whether or not this was advantageous ("it's a feature, not a bug, damnit!"). I mean... you're getting 48mm from a standard 24mm lens! Free zooming!!! Haha. Who wants all that extraneous information on the outside of the frame ANYWAYS?