Full Frame Or Not?
By George Lepp
Q) Should I buy a camera with a full-frame sensor or an APS-C-sized sensor?
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FULL FRAME
Techniques Glossary FULL FRAME
An imaging sensor with the same size as film used for the respective format of camera. See also Crop factor and APS-C.
Full frame
By 'full frame' we mean that the EOS 5D's sensor is the same size as a 35 mm negative, this means that lenses used on the camera will produce the exact same field of view as they would on a 35 mm film camera (as they were designed).
Full Frame vs Crop Sensor
There is a lot of confusion about the nature of cameras with the APS-C sensor size vs. cameras with 35mm sensor size.
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Full frame equivalent
You'll sometimes see phrases such as "full frame equivalent" or "35mm equivalent" in conjunction with lenses designed for subframe sensors, such as EF-S lenses.
Full frame camera:
Nikon D3 - Excellent camera, but Keep in mind people have been having problems getting the 14-24mm lens sharp. And there is no full-frame equivalent of the Tokina 10-17mm lens.
Full frame
Show all of the image; mask to image on sides if necessary. Also, "NC": no crop on photo required.
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Full Frame cameras are very cruel towards lenses. Large format cameras are even worse, requiring the same tolerances over a much larger lens diameter. Those lenses are thus much harder to built and much more expensive.
A full frame fisheye lens for a 35mm camera
As fisheye lenses gained popularity in general photography, camera companies began manufacturing fisheye lenses that enlarged the image circle to cover the entire 35 mm film frame, ...
Above is a full frame shot with a street sign centered. I shot three frames with IS on and 3 frames with IS off, and the results are shown below: ...
If you use a full frame lens on a DX body, the softening effect will be even more pronounced since you will only be looking through the central portion of the lens rather than the full surface area.
Luckily I shoot full frame sensor with quality glass and with such a combination diffraction/COF softness does not set in till f22 or better.
The Head Shot: A full frame head shot has long been deemed a trophy image. But to truly meet this criteria, there are many factors that must fall into place. Simply filling the frame does not raise an image to this elite status.
When a full frame view is not desired, you can crop or enlarge a portion of the original slide. When you change the camera or lens distance to alter the image size, be sure to refocus the image.
Full Frame Stereo Format A stereo format which uses stereo pairs of 8 perforations (film sprockets) per image width. This would be the same as a conventional camera and is used on twin camera stereo photographs and with certain RBT cameras.
3X or more depending on the camera (except for full frame SLRs). Digital cameras use CCD chip instead of film to capture images. CCD size is smaller than a 35mm frame which is 24 x 36mm (1 x 1.5 inch).
With an 18 Megapixel full frame sensor, no AA filter, no need for IR filters, and the ability to take virtually every lens that Leica has ever made over the past 75 years, ...
To make a 16X20 print from a 35mm film camera image or full frame DSLR image requires almost 20X magnification of that image. Even if we had a full frame sensor DSLR with 22mp resolution, the optics of the system become the limiting factor.
8 ED Fisheye Lens is designed to work with "standard" DSLR sensors (smaller than film/full frame sensors) so this lens produces a full frame image rather than the circular "door peep" images of many fisheye lenses.
"The good Lord " comes in where housing design results in increased viewing distance and the need for additional optical devices, which allow the full frame to be viewed.
Firstly, even though I was using a wide-angle lens on a full frame camera, I simply could not get the pond and the mountain into the photo at the same time.
Although the upper boundary is a bit fuzzy, an ultra-wide-angle lens is approximately 20mm to 13mm (as used full frame or on an FX camera).
Although some professional DSLR cameras use full frame image sensors, most sensors on digital cameras are smaller than the 35mm format. To enable comparison of lenses for digital applications the 35mm equivalent is often used, i.e.
My camera does not have a full frame sensor, so a 400mm with a 1.6 crop factor is actually an effective 640mm lens. Just remember, air shows are usually several hours in duration, and longer lenses can get quite heavy.
At f/22, in the full frame, 1/3 in front of your point of focus and 2/3 behind your point of focus will be sharp. It's a variation of the "Rule of Thirds.
But the dive briefing told of all these majestic soft corals cloaking the substrate, so I decided to try to make it happen with the widest lens I had, a 15mm fisheye lens on a full frame Canon EOS-1Ds MKII.
A camera with a cropped sensor will multiply the apparent focal length of the lens by a factor equal to how many times smaller the sensor is than a full frame of 35mm film. Canon APS-C sensors, for example, are 1.
Video multiplexers use time division multiplexing, meaning that a full frame of video from each camera is recorded every few seconds.
Nikon has two different sensor sizes: full frame (FX) and 1.5x (DX).
Canon has three sensor sizes: full frame, 1.3x and 1.6x. Other manufacturers are in the same range, with Olympus being the notable exception, at 2x.
The name given by Nikon to its range of full frame format SLRs, the image sensor is virtually the same size as a 35mm film format.
I'm thinking I should get a full frame camera, like the D700, but what is the best lens(s)? Do I get a prime lens? Right now I have 5 Fuji S5's, 2 S3's, 2 D200's and a couple of Canons.
This means that if you mount a wide angle lens like a 14 or 17 mm on a full frame camera, it will result in a vignette at the edges of the frame.
With an SLR, using the taking lens, the framing and depth-of-field can be viewed directly, although most SLRs have a view slightly smaller than the full frame.
This is a photo of a young Samburu girl in Kenya, and I moved in very close to her beadwork with a 16mm (on a full frame sensor). I was about 12-14' away. Notice how disproportionately large the beads look relative to the background.
different monitors can crop the image to less than full frame. There is a safe area in the frame inside which the image is unlikely to be cropped
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A digital SLR (dSLR), on the other hand, uses a large image sensor, usually full frame (24×36 mm) or APS-sized (half-frame). Noise is rarely a problem and the use of a high ISO 400 results in images with barely noticeable noise.
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In full frame and 35mm-format cameras, lenses with a focal length of approx. 50mm are called normal or standard lenses. Lenses with a focal length less than approx. 35mm are called wide angle lenses, and lenses with a focal length more than approx.
Find an interesting scene, even the view from your bedroom window. Experiment with the following set-ups: a full frame, a partial frame (with less than four sides to it), and a narrow frame (where the frame is only in a limited part of the photo).
The shot is full frame with no cropping. It would lend some credence to the notion that subconsciously, humans may see a scene a certain way and without any preconceived ideas of what is a "good" composition, ...
Image sensor sizes range from the tiny up to ones as large as a frame of 35mm film called a full frame sensor.
Click to explore the sizes of image sensors.
A lens that captures a larger field of view than a normal or standard lens. For full frame digital SLRs a standard lens is 50mm, any lens with a shorter focal length is normally referred to as wide-angle.
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The Nikon digicams sharpen the preview so you can more clearly see what's in or out of focus. The Canon digicams offer no focusing aids at all, and a full frame contrast detecting focus algorithm. It can be very challenging to focus a Canon digicam.
Fisheye Lens: An extreme wide angle lens. Most fisheye lenses cover a 180 degree angle of view, popular focal lengths include 6, 8 and 14mm. The 6mm and 8mm lenses produce a circular image on the film. (not full frame) ...
This is of course good, but you should keep in mind if you plan to upgrade to a camera to a full frame sensor (sensors sized the same as a 35mm film frame), you cannot use these digital lenses. Nikon name these lenses EX while Canon uses EF-S.
This is regardless of the lens type (ultra wide, tele, macro ...) so the object magnification (of the test chart) remains always the same. For an APS-C DSLR this translates roughly to a camera-to-chart distance of 60x focal length (for full frame it ...
Actually, the shorter focal lengths used on the sub-full-frame cameras increases the DOF more than the smaller CoC decreases it. Consequently, sub-full-frame cameras have a greater depth of field, at any given aperture, than full frame cameras.
 See also: Frame, Camera, Image, Photograph, Lens
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