Sure, [Stan] could have bought a nice full-frame DSLR like a Canon 5D or a Nikon D3, but where’s the fun in that when he could build his own digital camera? The build isn’t done yet ...

Finally, Nikon caved, delivering the 12-megapixel D3; the result is a camera that ... Color accuracy is among the best we've seen in a digital camera, and overall image quality is wonderful ...

but it wasn’t until the mid-noughties that digital cameras really started to narrow the gap in image quality with full-frame releases such as the Canon EOS-1DS Mark II (2004) and Nikon D3 (2007).