My name is Simon d’Entremont and I’m a professional wildlife and nature photographer from Eastern Canada. Are you befuddled by the differences in sensor sizes and what it means for your photography? Noise, image quality, bokeh, resolution, size? I’ll cover all of these and more.
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27 Comments
What sized sensor are you using and why? I'd love to know! Always looking to know my viewers habits and gear to make better videos!
I started in photography with a sony a7r3 and a 16/35gm in which I exclusively do landscape photography. I do mountaineering and I go to places difficult to reach and high, and the sony in a snow storm suddenly turned off. Since then I sold my sony a6600 and bought the OM1 with the 12/40proII 2.8 and with its 50 megapixel handheld photography it does not detract at all in landscape photography, I also use it in macro with the 60mm and the new 90mm macro, and with the price of a 600 mm in ff buy the 40/150 pro and the 100/400 from Olympus. Nobody disputes the quality of FF but my om1 has been with me in very hostile places, snow storms, rain, at Montblanc, at the Gran Paradiso, etc… and it has never failed me. I barely use my Sony camera anymore. With the weight of this and two objectives I carry a camera and four Olympus objectives.
Brilliant explanation. I'm using a cropped sensor Canon EOS and have a wide range of lenses. I've always planned to ultimately buy a full frame camera but after seeing this I'm not so sure! 🤔
A:lot of BS
Yes. End of discussion.
Aps-c cameras are limited by good, fast optics designed specifically for crop sensor.
Love your channel Thank you.
Another great video, concise and informative. I have been shooting with a Canon RP (full sensor) for a couple of years (stepping up from Rebel 2000), but recently I got into bird and wildlife photography and found that the RP's shutter speed is too slow at 5fps and I am missing a lot of action. So I am in the market for an upgrade. I was curious about your thoughts between the R5 and the new R7 crop sensor specifically for birds, but also landscape photography. For birds will be using it with the RF 100-500mm lens. Would you recommend the R7 or you think sticking with R5 is the way to go. I have learned so much from you thus far, thank you!
Thank you for video!
Great content, but a bit difficult for me as a beginner in photography
Crop sensors are CRAP. They're only good if you want to throw away most of the image and just use the very center portion, lol.
Full frame (Sony Alpha), because it lets me use old lenses the way they were designed. On an APS-C, 28-35-50mm would be equivalent of 44.8-56-80mm. I would need to find a good 18mm to have a 28mm equivalent if moving to Fuji.
This is excellent! Thank you. One quibble: You suggest sensor size is related to additional features. I'm an OM-1 shooter and am amazed at the features in this relatively small sized sensor body. Far more features, I think, than are in its larger sensor competitors. All the best and looking forward to your future videos!
All necessary information, succinctly put as always. Thank you keep up the great work.
Huh i always thought that cropped sensor is just down right a inferior version of full frame. I got a canon 200d ii. I personally never thought about full frame cause the camera i have is good enough for me.
I see you use the 7dmii. Do you have an opinion on the 7dmii vs 80d? I've got an EOS R for landscape and real estate photos, and I've been using it for wildlife with great results, but thinking about picking up a 7dmii or 80d for wildlife.
Or, do you have any knowledge or thoughts on the in body 1.6 crop setting? I've used it, but feel the results are not that great. Curious if the 7dmii/80d would be the same as using the in body 1.6crop setting or if the 7dmii/80d would produce better results (I feel it probably would)
Using Sigma Contemporary 150-600mm lens.
4:35 but if you take the same shot on a full frame with the same zoom that we have on crop, shouldn't it be sharper and have more details?
4:35 and what about distortion? we know that the more fields of view you get the more distorted images get, and if we compare the shot on 35 crop and 50 full frame, wouldn't the crop image be more distorted?
My Pentax K-3 has weather sealing, video capabilities and dual card slots with an APS-C sensor.
Pleasure to hear such a sensible video. I tend to be mainly into video these days and have a couple of Sony Handicams, an AX700 and an AX53, the easier of the two to use but as a true barbarian, I have a GoPro hero 9 black that shoots very good 4k an 60 fps with great stabilisation and horizon levelling. Magic results off my electric scooter. I also have a Pentax (forget the model) and an automatic Nikon Coolpix for doing scruffies.
Your explanation about depth of field was simple and just perfect, a lot of others videos tried to explain more technically, but you just showed how it works in a few seconds!
There is one thing I simple love about the APS-C sensor, it's the camera size. I have the Canon M200 with grip adapter and a 50mm f1.8. The camera is small and I can carry all day in a trip without getting uncomfortable with a big bag. Now it is my best friend haha.
Full frame allways be better ! worthless video !
Gotta give you props. As a m4/3 user I have to say that this is the most even-handed comparison of full frame vs crop/.small sensored cameras I've yet to hear/read. Well done.
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noob here. this is my fav channel if i want to understand any aspect of fotography. thanks, man. (subded, ofc)
Hi Simon, as always great video, comprehensive and easy to understand. I have question, you say full frame has less noise ratio and capture more light compare to crop sensor because of its bigger size pixel sensor, how about same full frame sensor but with different resolution ? Because the bigger resolution will have smaller pixels, does that mean a larger resolution of the same size will have a higher noise ratio ?
There is also something like optical resolution, you can't crop image and replace this by smaller but denser sensor without loosing optical quality provided by the lens itself.
Just found this channel and really enjoy you're style. I subscrib3d immediately. Cheers from Alberta.