I too have never understood the obsession with the sensor's physical
size. I'm shooting now with my K10D and getting pictures that are
really good quality. The k20 is a little better, I suppose. Are th
e"full frame" cameras better simply because of the size of the sensor?
I doubt it.
CW
Dario Bonazza wrote:
I believe Full Frame to be akin the sex of angels, a perfect topic for
an endless discussion.
What's a frame? Is it related to lenses in use? Is it related to a
bayonet shape or a register distance? I don't think so.
With film, a frame is related to a supposedly standardised portion of
film. That's true enough with 35mm film, which saw very few exceptions
to 24x36mm. So the 18x24mm was the half frame and the 24x72 (see Xpan)
was - by definition - a double frame. Does anyone ever called it tha
way? I don't know.
Things become a lot harder with 120 film roll. What's full frame
there? 6x6? 6x7? 6x8? 6x9? Perhaps 6x9, so that 6x4.5 is half frame
(but try to dub it that way when talking to a 6x4.5 user and be ready
to fly out) and then 6x6 to 6x8 should all be reduced formats. This is
nonsense to me.
With digital, you have no rolls, hence the frame relates to the
sensor. Any sensor is a full frame of itself, unless you take a
cropped capture. If you fit a lens covering a larger format on a given
camera - which is the case with DA sensors equipped with say a FA lens
- you are tempted to start the FF thing. However, would you describe a
35mm camera equipped with a 645 or 67 lens as a reduced format?
Nonsense again. To me, format is related to the sensor, not to to the
lens in use, which may well be oversized at leisure.
At the end of the day, I think that FF is just another name for
something which didn't truly need it. Its's just another way of
calling 24x36mm, with no other meaning in it.
But I understand you all can disagree.
Dario
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