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We have a hostile out of x1d, which is a medium format sensor
It's the largest digital sensor on the market right now. Then we have the full frame camera the nascent
Then we go to 70 which is an aps-c sensor
Which is that crop sensor size and last of all micro four-thirds with that Panasonic. Gh4?
We won't look at these four different sensor sizes and just see how they compare with each other with regards to vent depth of field
with regards to image quality grain structure how much data is really coming through versus
artifacting
Let's take a look and see what they look like. So let's get started. See how they compare
So we just got back from the beach we had five cameras five cameras four cameras, well, we had a beach yesterday as well
Yeah, three of us hauling stuff around the sand. Of course the waves are coming in and we got stand allows for a couple cameras
They're flying out like people walking like going wow, he's got too many cameras. Can I take one?
No, you can't take one
Okay, so we're gonna quickly go to the focus that we just hear and just starting at three point two
Which was the the smallest aperture for the Hasselblad your background falls away. Yes. It's a pretty - super super quick
I mean, it feels like less than a 2.8 on full frame
Yeah, you know
It feels like a very shallow depth of field very show
If you look at the gh 5 and of course this a which is a little overexposed, which is unfortunate
But the gh 5 is InFocus all the way down the California coast man. Yeah, it's crazy
I did not expect that to be so dramatically, but if you look at the
7d you're good of the sony. Yeah we go
The sony I feel like the difference between the 7d and the sony is probably the least between all of them
You know, yes like the Hasselblad to the Sony still feels kind of dramatic the 7d
But then there's something to the 7d not as much. Yeah, you're absolutely right
So when we start to go to f4, I mean, it doesn't change that drastically we go to five six
Which is kind of optimal here to shoot there's a 7d
Again, you say the 7d is looking very similar to the Sony
but again that Hasselblad at five six the background is still
Considerably more out of focus than the Sony what I like about this is that you can shoot at your lenses optimal
Aperture in terms of sharpness and performance and still have a really shallow depth of field. You care on the hospital on the house
Absolutely. Nice. Yeah, I mean that you're absolutely right. I mean you're at the optimal sharpness on that lens and
It's and you have a nice falling out of focus in the background
whereas it's not the same on the
On the sony of the sony of five six here and a sony just not seen as much you know, yeah
You're seeing more of the background. It's not quite as yeah, you know, but if we jump up to say like f11
f11 on the the GH five
Everything is in focus down there. I'm, it's the focus all the way down south
America, I can see chile right over there in the corner
So look at this is the hospital f11
I mean we have to go all the way to 32 for the Hasselblad to finally be in focus on the rock I was
Even at f-22 that large rock behind her is still a little bit. There's 20
Bit but look at the g h5 would have 22
everything's in focus people all the way back to f-16 which was the most we get on the
The lens we had it was only sony
So the question becomes here and I think what are the stop differences
So like how do you match the depth of field from camera to camera?
So we kind of came up with this at the panasonic. Gh4
3.2 looks very similar to the sony a7r 3 at 8.0 looks very similar to the can of seventy at five six
Which looks very similar to the hostile at static f-16 so yeah
You're looking at more than a four stop difference in terms of achieving the same depth of field for the cameras. Yeah across the spectrum
So what's interesting about that is the reality is that?
The Hasselblad can't give you the depth
Of focus that the GH 5 can give you right but the gh 5 can't give you the shallow depth of field at the Hasselblad
Can give you the thought that comes to my mind then is sure the hospital odd super high quality large sensor
But is it it's not as flexible as say maybe a full-frame sensor
Because to my mind the full-frame sensor can achieve very deep depth of field
It can also achieve very shallow depth of field if you open it up to 1.2 or something like that
So how does the how does a shallow depth of field compare when it's wide open versus the hospital that's wide open?
Let's take a look at that
Okay, so here are each of these with the as wide open as the lenses that we have so which we're all very fast
They look for the format
we have
first of all the panasonic h5 1.7
I mean it is achieving a shallow depth of field here that that's a that's a workable portrait
And I think for headshots and stuff you might want to be able to go more shallow than that
But that's totally workable then that you have the 7d and that's of course a lot shallower
Larger, even though it's pretty much the same aperture
And then the step-up is a 7r3 in holy cow. Look at that 1.2
It is in backgrounds just gone
So a lot of folk very elated focused very beautiful look, but the Hasselblad of the three point to it again
You have more detail in the background. It's not as not as out of my point. It's not a shallow of a depth of field
So even at three at three point to the Hasselblad is not as shallow as a sony at one point - yeah, exactly
So again, well that makes sense. The Hasselblad struggles on giving you depth. Mm-hmm
The GH five gives you depth but struggles giving you shallow
so the a7 r3 and the 7d are kind of more in the middle and they're giving you a little bit on both sides and
It looks like the a7 r3 is really giving you more more on each other on you-jin
And which really moves us to the next side and that is it
The a7 r3 is a 42 megapixel camera, right? And the Hasselblad is a 50
Yeah, so edges it out a little bit it edged out a little bit
But when you go to blow those up when we looked at blowing them up at 300dpi
the hospital I will give you the same with 26 inches and
The a7 three only gives you like 17 inches high with the Hasselblad will give you like 22 inches
This is really kind of made me realize that I think a full-frame camera is the most flexible tool
Yes, because you can shoot at your f-22 and you have everything in focus
You can shoot a year at one point - and you have nothing in focus. So what's interesting then is the
the a7 3
It becomes a compromise in another way in that. It's a little lower megapixel, right you're
Gonna blow it up as much but you still have that larger sensor, which is gonna give you the nice depth of field
so it's a come from it's a it's in between the 7d and the a7 are three is looking at the size of
sensor and sensor quality
Man what we could test to somebody every day
I'm having a hard time as a thinking as a landscape photographer why you'd be using that large sensor for focus issues
but we had it have talked to landscape person that probably say well it's because this shit Mo's all
But we took a landscape photo we did let's look at that
All right, so here's this was really late in the day I mean sun's down yeah, it's very very dark very dark
So there's there's a good amount of depth of field on all the cameras. Obviously the Hasselblad would be the least
Looking at the images. I can definitely see where the smaller pixel smaller sensor size on the jh5 stands out like it's gritty
It's grainy and it just feels a little more
Less detailed the 70s. Okay this a seven or three and the hospital have both look real
I mean they both kind of look the same to me almost in terms of noise structure and how the image looks okay
So let's look at this is all shot at 1600 ISO. They're all hurtin
Some of these are really greedy that you look at the jh5 and the 7d
I mean the 7d is actually grittier than the GH five to mine looks terrible. Yeah
But the Hasselblad is really it's pretty smooth for
1600 and and this is where the a7
Actually does kind of fall by. Oh, yeah, and that's always how it is with the Sony's they don't perform
Well when you start pushing the ISO
To go back to the question to start this all just sensor size matter. Yes
it does to a certain extent if you want a high-performing camera, I
Can't recommend the micro four-thirds. I don't even know if I can recommend the
See honestly when you surprise me because I've always thought. Meh aps-c, you know, super 35 doesn't matter
The full-frame is definitely the sweet spot. Mm-hmm. I don't see a huge improvement
Based on the few things we shot with the medium format, but that's just me. You know, I agree with you
It's really not enough to make it worth it to me. Yeah, and your lenses are more money
Everything's more my either don't just step up with a camera you step up with a whole system
Again, that full-frame sensor seems to be a sweet spot
Gives you great depth of field control be able to get things out of focus
You know get things in focus gives you a really decent image size on the a7 r3, you know
That full-frame be able to blow that up. So there you have it does sensor size matter
Well, maybe not quite in the way that you might have. Thought. So keep those cameras rolling and keep on clicking
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