hi everyone today we're going to talk about full frame vs. crop sensor cameras
what's the difference between the two which has an advantage over the other
which one should I choose we're going to talk about all that in three two one
so what is sensor size if you look at this picture you can see this woman
cleaning the inside of the camera or actually the camera sensor so every DSLR
camera has this little inside area this is actually the mirror but this thing
goes up and underneath right behind this this little rectangle right here that is
a camera sensor so you have both full-frame and crop sensor okay so this
is where the information is recorded when you take a picture the light goes
through the lens and inside and it hits the camera sensor inside here it's
basically an area where information is recorded and then it goes through this
processor and it comes out in this little file and that's your picture okay
so now let's look at some sensors if we come to the next page we see full frame
first crop sensor they look the same but they're not exactly the same the full
frame is obviously much bigger than the crop sensor so it's actually like having
a bigger pie we could call these pies and sensors because everyone likes pie
so the pie right here is much bigger than this pie so it everyone wants the
full frame or the big pie because you're gonna get a lot more so it's gonna the
camera is gonna record a lot more information than over here so obviously
having more information is gonna make your picture better so let's talk more
about full frame versus crop sensors so let's say I was using a 200 millimeter
lens if I was using a 200 millimeter lens on a camera with a full frame it
would equal 200 millimeters so it's only one time it's exactly what the lens says
and if you look at the picture you can see that the full frame goes around the
entire area all right then I'm taking a picture of now if you look at a cropped
sensor lens it's magnified or it's zoomed in 1.5 times Canon lenses it's
actually 1.6 but this is a rough estimate so for just intensive purposes
of this video in general it's about 1.5 times not exactly but it's pretty darn
close so I've I used a 200 millimeter lens on
a crop sensor that would equal 300 millimeters because I'm cropping in one
and a half times so as you can see if I'm taking picture of something that was
really far away having that crop sensor would give me an
advantage because I could be a lot closer to the image however if I wanted
to get a landscape or a wide shot with this lens it might give me a
disadvantage because I can't go quite as wide so now looking at this image on the
full screen you can see that a full frame goes 36 millimeters by 24
millimeters that's the size of the actual sensor okay has nothing to do
with the actual image size the image size is gonna be bigger but we're just
talking about the sensor size right now so the sensor of a full-frame camera is
36 millimeters by 24 millimeters the crop sensor is gonna be 22 to 24 by
about 15 to 17 millimeters so as you can see if you took this picture with a
full-frame camera you're getting the entire area of this guy so it's more
like an environmental portrait whereas with the crop sensor it's really zoomed
in I may not be able to first see that this guy is actually a surfer on top of
a wave and the sun's in the background so I'm not getting much of the sky as
well or the water so it's a much different look all right let's look at
another example for clarification so if I was taking a photo with a 50
millimeter lens it would be quite different so to the left I took a
picture with this one full-frame camera of the 50 millimeter
and you can see I have the entire background I have this entire Colombian
farmer in frame whereas on the right he's much more zoomed in it's much more
like a headshot so it's much more cropped in one and a half times I didn't
really take this photo with two different cameras a full-frame sensor
and a crop sensor however I just dropped in one and a half times to show you the
difference of how it would sort of look if I used a full-frame versus a crop
sensor there are other aspects of having a full frame versus a crop sensor before
we look at those aspects let's look at the different sensor sizes so here we
have the vast majority of cameras on the market right now we have everything from
full frame down to the sensor on your phone so there are all different sizes
as you can see the sensor size goes from big to small small to big ok so on the
left the full frame is mainly the big cameras that you see and if you notice
as you go down the cameras get smaller however that's not always the case
sometimes smaller cameras do have a cropped or even a full-frame sensor so
it's not always the case with the camera size so don't be fooled by the camera
size however as a general rule the bigger the camera the bigger the sensor
now although we have all these camera sensor sizes the ones we're gonna
concentrate are the two on the left the full frame and the APS or the aps-c okay
aps-c is canon they're a little smaller than the nikons and some of the others
but basically they're considered a crop sensor as well so we're gonna
concentrate basically on the three I should say on the left the full frame
and then the two next to it that are crop sensors whenever you hear someone
say full-frame or crop sensor you know they're referring to these two different
types of cameras full-frame is much bigger an ApS or aps-c is a little
smaller alright 1.5 times about all right so
what are the advantages having a full frame versus a crop sensor
or one sensor over another with a full frame you're gonna get the best image
resolution and best image quality possible you hear a lot about megapixels
I feel like this is almost like a marketing gimmick megapixels are
important if you have more megapixels your image is gonna look a little
sharper a little better especially when you blow it up however the size of the
sensor is more important I believe than the actual megapixels so when you have a
really big sensor you're gonna get much better resolution and you're gonna get
much better image quality another advantage of having a full-frame camera
is that it's great in low-light all right when you're shooting indoors or at
nighttime or they're not a lot of light around the camera is really gonna
perform well you can bump up the ISO and it's not gonna be grainy or noisy you're
still gonna maintain good image quality when the lighting is not that great now
the last advantage that I mentioned here for having a full-frame camera is often
underestimated by a lot of photographers I think the shallow depth of field and
having a better bokeh or background blur is much better with a full-frame camera
it is noticeably different a lot of people say that difference is negligible
and that it's really just better to have a crop sensor and that having a crop
sensor versus a full-frame camera isn't that big of a difference but I've
noticed it's a significant difference and if you really care about your work I
think that having a little more shallow depth of field and having that better
background blur really gives your image a more painterly feel a more artistic
and creative feel and when you blow up your image and when you print your image
you really can tell the difference so if you're just posting your photos online
this isn't a huge advantage but if you end up printing your images or
displaying your images on a computer or someplace where it's much larger this
last advantage is really important all right now let's look at the crop sensor
or ApS with the crop sensor you get the best value for your MA
so it's sort of like the law of diminishing returns if you're just
starting out you might want to get a crop sensor I started out with a crop
sensor and it still had amazing image quality and even today some of those
images I took are as good or better than images I took with my full-frame camera
so is the full-frame worth $1,000 or $2,000 more than the crop sensor for
having a few of those extra advantages well if you're working professional I
think it is if you're just starting out you might want to save that money and
spend it more on camera lenses or lighting or other aspects of your
photography game and some of the photography equipment that you'll need
now one huge advantage of having a crop sensor is that it has much more
telephoto or zoom capability so when you're doing sports or you're doing a
wildlife photography or you're doing bird photography and you need that extra
zoom having that crop sensor really helps of course I always feel like you
could just walk forward or try to get closer to the image however I understand
for wildlife and certain imagery that's not always possible so having the crop
sensor can be really helpful I think all of these advantages are clear but the
one that I think people don't really appreciate as much is the shallow depth
of field and the background blur which makes your image look really artistic
and painterly so I'm going to show you some examples of that so right here I
have two two examples of photos that I took with a full frame and as you can
see on the left and on the right there's a really pleasing background blur even
with the image on the right where that door was right behind that farmer there
still is a background blur there was no separation between him and even with
that little separation between the farmer and that door you can still see a
significant amount of background blur so having that artistic approach really
makes your images look a little more 3d and it's not just about having the
background blur because the crap sensor will give you a
nice background blur but the full frame will give you a little more pleasing a
little more something so some lenses you use might give you really sharp images
however usually like a lens like a one point four lens will give you a really
nice background blur as you can see in the first image on the left there's a
really pleasing nice buttery smooth background blur or bokeh and to me this
makes the image really painterly more artistic and also makes the subject pop
out a little more so I think having that background blur having that little
unique look I think helps for a photographer in the creative process
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