Myths about full-frame cameras
Dec 21, 2018 08:05:48 #
ggenova64 wrote:
The Twelve Years of Full Frame!
10. Ansel Adams never would have used a cropped sensor
Ansel Adams would have loved the digital darkroom. He would have grasped the technology and also be a master at it!
Dec 21, 2018 08:09:34 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Mine our more interesting and full of truthiness ...
Did you mean; are??
Dec 21, 2018 08:14:04 #
Go get 'em Dave! 
Dec 21, 2018 08:15:10 #
"And a partridge in a pear tree." Kinda looks like you've been nipping at the Christmas punch a tad early, but it IS a cool list.
Dec 21, 2018 08:44:28 #
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Dec 21, 2018 08:54:17 #
I'm mostly amused by how many posters appear to be taking the list seriously?
Dec 21, 2018 08:55:21 #
In my humble opinion only the first one of your statements is true. Indeed it is true also for a DX camera. It is well known that larger pixels catch the light better, seem to have some advantage when it comes to noise and sharpness seems to improve. This is what I know, I could be wrong but the D2H I owned told me a lot about the number of pixels and sharpness. It only had 4 megapixels but I dare to say that the enlargements from that camera were of superb quality.
I do not know if you will find this information relevant but a DX camera using a DX lens uses the whole sensor as a full frame camera does. I have always advised those "updating" to a FX body to use only FX lenses. Makes no sense to buy a full frame to use crop lenses.
By the way, I use a D610 and a D7000. I would be a fool if I admit that I see a difference in the quality of the images between both cameras. Both do the job when I do mine.
Wide angles used to be an issue with the crop sensor till Nikon introduced the 12-24 f4 AF-S and from there on wide angle photography with a crop sensor is no longer an issue. When it comes to teles we all know the crop sensor does better.
I do not know if you will find this information relevant but a DX camera using a DX lens uses the whole sensor as a full frame camera does. I have always advised those "updating" to a FX body to use only FX lenses. Makes no sense to buy a full frame to use crop lenses.
By the way, I use a D610 and a D7000. I would be a fool if I admit that I see a difference in the quality of the images between both cameras. Both do the job when I do mine.
Wide angles used to be an issue with the crop sensor till Nikon introduced the 12-24 f4 AF-S and from there on wide angle photography with a crop sensor is no longer an issue. When it comes to teles we all know the crop sensor does better.
Dec 21, 2018 08:56:41 #
But when you come right down to it, FF is better than Partial Frame. 
Dec 21, 2018 08:59:00 #
jerryc41 wrote:
But when you come right down to it, FF is better than Partial Frame.
Sorry Jerry, I do not agree with you.
Dec 21, 2018 09:11:19 #
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Dec 21, 2018 09:23:57 #
Just because it is a myth doesn't mean that there is not truth in it. See Joseph Campbell.
Dec 21, 2018 09:26:37 #
CHG_CANON you are my kind of guy! You grab that stick, hold it firmly and bury deep into the bees nest! Great post!
Dec 21, 2018 09:29:06 #
IDguy wrote:
Number one is actually true. Some others not so much.
It refers to pixels, not sensor sites or sensels. Therefore, it is a myth. “Bigger” pixels are just larger values.
Sensels have physical size. Pixels are just numbers processed FROM the output of several sensels, matrixed and averaged together.
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