Digital Camera Low Light Photography
what is the difference between the best 1.6x digital SLR camera and full frame DSLRs?
Other than crop factor, more light entering the camera and lower noise on higher ISO, I’d like to know what is the difference to give up a EOS 7D for a 5D mark ii for wildlife photography? or other high end DSLRs
If the things you already named are not a factor for you – perhaps there’s not much reason for you do do it. There’s only one other major difference – and as a wildlife photographer, you will probably be better off with what you have now.
The difference is the mentioned 1.6x (or 1.5x on Nikon) factor. Photographing wildlife, you probably rely on telephoto lenses a lot, and at crop cameras the lenses have field of view that is comparable to lenses that are this much longer. Of course – you are not fooling anybody to tell that the lenses become longer, because basically it’s a cropped image that you get after all, but the advantages are clear:
1. All of your pixels are concentrated on that cropped area, If you just crop the full frame shot, you’ll just be using the ones in the center.
2. For the crop factor you’ll enjoy slightly better depth of field, because even though that lens is covering like 450mm on full frame, it is still a 300mm optically, so you get more DOF, which is always scarce at these focal lengths.
3. Last but not least – these cameras are smaller and lighter than full frame ones, making your back strain a little less severe. Oh, and cheaper too – so your wallet will join your back in feeling less pain :/
If you were shooting portraits or weddings – perhaps you’d be better off with full frame for the very same reasons. But for wildlife, I’d stick with the smaller one.
Just my opinion.
LEM.
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