Most modern pc will run lightroom fine, what makes a difference is ram and SSD to run lightroom cache and spend money on a decent monitor

In the end it all comes down to price and availabiliy, as johna said moores law comes ito play in that processor speed doubles every two years (18 months in reality) due to minitiarrisation and the number if transisitors you can fit on a chip. As we have seen 24 megapixel aps c sensors coming in to production the smaller pixel sensors get faded out. Once the price point bcomes consumer level on FF sensors most manufacturers will swap over to only making FF sensor bodies.

At the moment most consumer dslr buyers dont know what full frame is or means which therein lies a market ready to exploit with technology and introduce new lens ranges to. If you where manufacturer of camera bodies why would you want to ignore this new market? As I have said before SLR manufacturers apart from Sony are reliant upon sensor manfacturers just like computer manufacturers are reliant upon CPU manufacturers who will want to reduce costs by reducing inventory and simplifying product range.

I have said it before APS C has very little life left in, it has an inevitability about it, like pentium 1 2 3 and 4 processors before. Technology moves so fast it could be even sooner. Of course this could all change in the blink of an eye if some disruptive technology comes along to the sensor industry like SSD to the hard drive market or the Smartphone to the Sat Nav industry which deletes existing technology in a flash.

A lot of them are it seems compacts and polaroids worth very little, i didnt see anything to go wow over...

Some used online already, won't find out physical print use until next month.

Great stuff, thanks

Shooting tonight i really could have done with my spare body and a shorter lens be fitted slongside my prime body on a monopod, does such a device exist???

Haha thats why i posted it

I have changed the rear Tamron filter which wasnt in the best of condition for one of these

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MARUMI-DHG-43mm-DIGITAL-PROTECTION-FILTER-AUTHORIZED-M...

I think it has helped a little

Now I have carbon wrapped it the Tamron looks fairly modern, I actually had some envious looks as where told it was a pit shoot, but when we got there was told the venue had ordered us to shoot from the back so most of the togs didnt have long glass with them

Thanks David

I was really pleased with the number of keepers I got from shooting MF usually I would be lucky to get 6 or 7 good shots, tonight I got over thirty, which is a significant improvement and down in part to the mkii focus accuracy, even when shooting MF it is so much easier on the mkii.