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And again with a question
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It means that your image sensor is the same size as when using 35mm film. Cameras such as Canon 5D and Canon 1DS have FF sensor. Other cameras such as Canon 20D and Nikin D70 have a smaller sensor, which mean that you are only getting 1.6 and 1.5 of the 35mm frame respectively. This is referred to as the “crop factor.”
On a camera with a crop factor of 1.6 (such as 20D) then when you use a 50mm lens, you are obtaining a view equivalent to 50×1.6 = 80mm on a 35mm film camera. With the same 50mm lens on a FF digital camera, the view is exactly the same as on a 35mm film camera.
The effect of this is that cameras with a crop factor are excellent for long range (such as sports) and FF cameras are better for landscape where you need wide angle (although there are now very wide angle lenses available to make up for this ie Canon 10-22mm).
A full frame digital SLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera built for a pre-existing range of photographic lenses that takes full advantage of the image circle of those lenses by having a sensor that is the full size of the film frame the lenses were designed to cover. Equivalent in size to a frame of 35mm film, the 5D (as an example) 35.8 x 23.9 mm CMOS sensor gives photographers a full angle of view without magnification or cropping effect.
– Thorsten.
Wow, think I need to let that all sink in..
So it doesn’t affect film cameras then?CreativeA wrote:
Wow, think I need to let that all sink in..
So it doesn’t affect film cameras then?Not if you’re talking about a traditional 35mm SLR camera – that’s a “full-frame” camera and it’s the reference against which digital cameras are compared.
CreativeA wrote:
If a camera shoots full frame.. what exactly does that mean???
It means it’s expensive :)
Ah, thanks Thorsten that’s probably why I had no idea what he was on about….
I’m used to using Film SLR and a crap digi camera that I wouldn’t expect to have half the stuff on it.Ciaran – LOL :)
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