Do You Need a Full Frame Camera? – Photo Question of the Week

Than wich is better 1D mark iii the full frame sensor with 10.1 megapixel or canon 80D crop sensor with 24.1 megapixel wich is worthy

I'm watching this in 2018 and it's still so damn true that gears won't beat your vision and creativity. Thumbs up, Sir!

Whenever anyone addresses this question, it is funny, but they always seem to forget WHY photographers wanted full frame at all. Those who came from film cameras will recall the tiny 110 film on pocket cameras, the 35mm film on compact and slr cameras, and the 120 film on pro level or studio level cameras. The same thing applies today. If you're shooting with the intention of making a lovely 50 x 40 cm (or larger) print, then you'll be struggling with a crop sensor. It simply will not enlarge to that scale cleanly enough compared to a full frame.

I chuckle when the better ISO performance is touted as the reason people go for full frame – it never crossed my mind. I simply want the ability, on that rare perfect shot, to be able to enlarge it to a humungous size, I would hate to look at it on the monitor and think, oh heck, if I had used full frame for this one I could go past 10 x 8" and get a perfect print.

Rethink your motives. Full frame should mostly be about the ability to make VERY large enlargements. They can bury me with my D810, I am never parting with it, nor going back to cropped sensors.

And remember! Most of the things expensive cameras do can be achieved with cheaper cameras if you take the time. For example when capturing high dynamic range pictures, one can always use bracketing.

I own a Nikon D610 and 18-35mm lens. Wonderful full frame camera and a great lens but very heavy. I went to the camera store over the weekend and spoke to the sales assistant about going mirrorless. I still wanted full frame and smaller body but the weight difference between the Nikon and Sony A7 with the same lens was only 64g! I decided to purchase the Olympus EM10 MkII which blew me away, and seriously who is really going to notice on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook that I'm not using full frame on my travels?I'll keep using my Nikon but my tiny Olympus micro 4/3 will be my travel companion from now on.

Buy a Canon 6D…for those who are in the know.

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Would you recommend me shooting Full Frame if I print huge and sell as art? I currently have a Nikon D7200 and I love it, but is it holding me back from printing large? I havent had any issues….

I study it at uni, full frame doesn't really matter as much these days, you have crop sensor Nikons like the D7100 and the D7200 with the DX Lens's which have a very high MP range. I find the DXS are very very good in comparison to Canon USM lens. I also found the Canon 60D and Canon 7D very good with the USM lens's. However I feel Nikon are ahead of the game in Crop sensor cameras and I do feel Nikons lens's for Crop Sensors are better. However when we go higher up with full frame, Canon L series and other third party lens's feel a lot better and are incredible, thats where Canon are ahead, not to mention the build quality and aesthetic appeal are much better. I found the Canon 5 DMKII very good compared to the Nikon equivalent. But its always down to preference and what you shoot 🙂

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Hey Josh, did you get a chance to try out a ProGrey CPL adapter? You brought them up as a brand when you were recommending what filters people should consider. I've never been able to find out good information about how well that system does or doesn't work. Any thoughts?

G'Day Mr Cripps and thanks for another useful and interesting video.

My local camera rental store was doing a special offer this Easter weekend. I got a D750 body on hire for four days for $115.
Even with my cheap a*sed plastic fantastic 50mm lens on the front the image quality is just mind blowing. So much detail in the raw files. For me now there is no going back to DX, even though I'm not a pro I cant say enough about this body, the handling, the feel and balance in the hand. Also the camera "Knows" when I have a DX lens on the front and switches to the correct format so I dont get the inherent weird vignetting. Even if your creative skills are not at pro level the FX format will let you level up just by the shear image quality alone……. A word of warning though, If you are like me and have an older Windows computer you will have a couple of issues in handling the raw files. You will need the latest Codecs (in my case from Nikon) to open them in Windows, also I had to upgrade my version of Lightroom to 5.7. Not a huge deal just a slight inconvenience.

So, My advice to anyone concidering upgrade is to hire one out for a couple of days.

EVERYONE NEEDS A FULL FRAME, so much money 😭

I took a Sony A99 and a Fuji X-T1 to an event. I found that the pics from the Fuji were just better out of the camera, and required much less post processing fuss. I sold all my heavy, expensive Sony gear and haven't looked back! I don't need full-frame. You might.

Bracketing multiple exposures then merging them later is the cheapest way to overcome just about any cameras dynamic range. If you want to fully extract the absolute maximum dynamic range from your sensor in one single frame consider using a Sekonic digital lightmeter. You can spot meter very accurately, take multiple measurements then let the meter calculate the best average to match your scene. If you calibrate your camera's sensor to your lightmeter using the supplied software you will be able to extract the last bit of juice from your sensors dynamic range. I know for some Lightmeters are considered obsolete but this method whilst relatively time consuming takes all the guesswork out of your shot.

Keep in mind if you get a DX camera First and you might go for a Full Frame down the Road think about the Lenses, Now a day's you need Good lenses for the Bigger megapixel cameras … if you buy DX and Cheap lenses you will have to sell them all when you go Full Frame……… I only have Primes in my Bag now, Nikon D810 and soon to be D820……… Nikon 200mm f/2, Nikon 24mm 1/4, Zeiss Otus 55mm 1/4, Zeiss APO 135mm f/2 and the new Sigma 85 art and the 2x v3 tele………. I have sold a lot of lenses over the years and lost a lot of money doing so, Try to Buy Used it saves a lot of Money

All very true points here Josh. Perhaps you can also do a quick video for people on a higher end crop sensor vs. a quality full frame. for instance D500 vs D750. similar price and both great cameras, but a tough call for which to go with. Happy trails man.

Chase Jarvis quote comes to mind "The Best Camera is the One you have with you"