Now, if you push in on a long lens, you get beautiful results, but if you are shooting with a 50mm lens, for example, because of the crop, you are only seeing about 31mm of the frame. It’s not actually zoomed in but just think of it like that to help visualize the difference. Another way to think about it is (this): it’s like a full frame sensor that’s constantly zoomed in slightly. Aside from that, the benefits of a full frame sensor include a higher dynamic range, better low-light and high ISO performance, and a wider field of vision compared to a crop sensor.Ī crop sensor is just what it sounds like it’s a sensor that produces a cropped version of what a full frame sensor will pick up. There are higher quality films (think Imax) and there are cheaper (8mm home video if you remember that), but 35mm is the agreed upon go to for professional imaging. Going back to 1908, 35mm has been the gold standard for film size due to it’s cost to quality ratio.
So with no further adieu, I present to you, the simple, boiled-down and in no-way-technical distinction between full frame and cropped sensors.Ī full frame sensor is a sensor equal in size to 35mm film. While it’s not critical for a new photographer to know, like a guitarist learning to play bar chords, even if you never use it, it’s something you really should have knowledge of. But after a while, I kept hearing the terms being tossed around and still had no idea what they meant.
#DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FULL FRAME AND CROP SENSOR MANUAL#
For months after, I simply wrote it off as something that did not apply to me and happily went along my way, learning to shoot in manual mode with one camera, not concerning myself with any others. Needless to say I still had no idea what the difference was or how he could tell from looking at a photograph whether it was shot on a cropped or full frame sensor. He gave me a very technical and thorough explanation. When I first started shooting with a Nikon D50, a friend of mine (who had actually given me the Nikon as a hand-me-down) tried explaining the difference between full frame and crop frame sensors. When you’re first getting into photography the lexicon of new words can be overwhelming.
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