cedymock Loc: Irmo, South Carolina

Think this question may help some folks trying to decide which camera to buy.
Photographers that used APS-C then moved to FF would you go back to APS-C?
Keeping in mind professionals may use both, you could only choose crop sensor or FF.
As for me I have seen no evidence that would lead me back to a crop sensor.

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Same here. I kept my a-77 for a year thinking I would use it for macro and telephoto but after a year with no use I sold it. No regrets.

BebuLamar

I never had an APS-C digital camera. I wouldn't buy a Canon or Nikon APS-C DLSR but a Fuji X series is not out of question or an Olympus M43 is not out of question either. The reason that Canon and Nikon (Pentax too) APS-C DSLR's are really cropped. They have few lenses for the format and the lenses designed for the format are not of high quality.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

It's a camera with a different format and results.
Either.

I've had 35mm and 2-1/4 film cameras. Different formats, different results.
I used both.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I just purchased, what would be considered a crop sensor, back for one of my cameras. I'm already looking and saving for a larger sensor.
--Bob

saxman71 Loc: Wenatchee, WA

I may be the only one, but I'll go the other way on this question. I own both a Nikon D810 and a D500. I have used both cameras extensively for about two years now. I like them both a lot and use them both a lot. But if I was forced to give one of them up, I would lean towards the D810. Why? I believe I can come very close to replicating the landscape shots I normally take with the D810 if I were to use my D500 instead. However, I have not had great success capturing birds in flight with my D810. That's where the D500 really excels. I posted two images here recently. One of a diving duck (D500) and the other a night cityscape (D810). I think I could have shot the cityscape with my D500 and come very close to this final image. I doubt I could have captured the diving duck with my D810. https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-631479-1.html

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

I had been shooting FF Canon gear for some years when in 2013 I upgraded to APS-C (Fuji). I will not go back to FF as my main camera.

Joe

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I don't know what you mean by "really cropped". Nikon and Pentax are 1.5 crop, exactly the same as Fuji. Canon is 1.6 and Olympus is even smaller. I also don't know what you mean by "they have few lenses for the format", since every Pentax lens ever built is available for their "APS-C" cameras - in fact, I choose to use them.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

This is an interesting question. I'm not a "professional" photographer, but I do own and shoot both DX and FX cameras and lenses. I also shoot both older and newer cameras and lenses. And the astounding thing is that they all do a fine job for me. Specifically, I have and use a D200, D300, D300s, D500 (x2), D810, and D850. The newer cameras get most of the use, but all are kept in operating condition and ready to go. I'm also a collector and just don't have interest in selling the older equipment.

Addressing your question...I find that there are times that I don't want to leave the house without a camera, but that I also don't want to be loaded down with a lot of "stuff." In those cases, I'm most likely to grab the D500 with my 18-200mm zoom. It might be the 24-120mm f4, if things might be a little more serious or if I might need a little more speed or sharpness. But if there is going to be anything serious done, it's always one of the full frame cameras. At the other end, for family gatherings where images will be emailed or otherwise shared, it's one of the D300s...no sense burdening anyone with the big files from the other cameras or me with trying to figure out how to get those giant files distributed.

But the truth is that if hadn't been for technological and economic constraints when digital photography was getting started, I seriously doubt that we would have ever seen anything other than a 24x36mm full frame sensor. There would have been no reason for it. The small formats were initial compromises that enabled the industry to get started.

I would never willingly give up my full frame equipment today.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Photography is not about the sensor. It’s about the lenses. So you question should be about the lens systems not the sensor.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

It is about the whole system - sensor + processor + lenses.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I shoot both; D7200 and D850. I see no reason to decide which I would keep. Both have their great points and are better for different things.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

You are clueless about Nikon lenses. Plus there are hundreds of non Nikon lenses that fit Nikon’s.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

What about the mind?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

What about the mind?