Suppose you are planning to buy a new camera or upgrade your camera to a new one. The first confusion that arises is whether to buy a full-frame camera or a crop sensor camera. So you must have already heard about the expensive full-frame camera and overrated talks about the full-frame cameras.
Let’s see what the actual difference for full frame cameras and cropped sensor cameras, Also there are advantages and disadvantages over one another.
What are full-frame cameras ?
Just like our old-time 36mm film cameras, Full frame cameras come with 36mm sensors. The cameras with sensor sizes higher than 36mm are called Medium format cameras and the ones below are called Crop sensor cameras.
What is a Crop Factor ?
The crop Factor is one of the main factors that differentiate Full-frame cameras and Crop Sensor cameras.
Crop Sensors are a mainly cropped size of the main sensors and that is what happens when we use the lens on the camera.
1. Focal Length
For example, when we use a wide-angle lens like 24mm in a Full-Frame camera and APS-C sensor, The output will be different.
When a 24mm lens gets a 24mm focal length in a Full frame camera, the Same lens gets around 35mm focal length in an APS-C camera. So to solve this disadvantage we need to use a lower focal length lens like 16 or 18mm to get the 24mm equivalent.
But this disadvantage becomes an advantage for APS-C cameras in some situations like using a telephoto lens.
Compared to Full frame cameras when a telephoto lens like 70-200mm is used in an APS-C camera it gets a more closer picture.
This will be more applicable in situations like Bird Photography, wildlife photography, or portraits.
2. Low Light Performance
Since Full-frame cameras have a bigger sensor size compared to APS-C cameras, The sensors have more pixels which can capture more light. In turn, Full-frame cameras have better low-light performance than an APS-C camera.
2. Depth of field
Compared to an APS-C camera full-frame cameras can produce a narrower depth of field. Since the sensor size is larger and there are more no pixels, A smaller part of the image is in sharp focus, and more of the background is blurred.
3. Price
Compared to APS-C cameras full-frame cameras are very expensive. Professional photographers mostly prefer full-frame cameras since they need high-quality prints and projections of pictures.
Conclusion
If your budget is good and have that much money to invest it’s better to go for full-frame cameras. Buying a budget-friendly APS-C camera and investing in a good-quality lens is also a better option.
The decision of choosing between the Full frame and APS-C camera is between the advantages and disadvantages based on your type of intrest.
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