Field of View

Same bird, same distance to subject, same lens, different bodies.

Full frame or 135 format on the left, APS-C (1.6x crop) on the right.

View all photos taken: Saturday, 8th August 2009, This photo: 3:36pm

Comments

  • Nicole Pearce Photography said:
    Looks good, can we see it bigger?
  • David de Groot said:
    Bigger than 1176 wide ? With a bit of fidling I could make and upload a larger one. I cheated when making this one and just used the LR Print module to make a two photo contact sheet and then trimmed the extra whitespace ;-)
  • Nicole Pearce Photography said:
    thats ok, I get the idea anyhow, hey the 30D did a pretty impressive job and I like how the bird is looking at the camera.
  • Nicole Pearce Photography said:
    oh derr I just clicked on all sizes I'm such a tool lol.
  • David de Groot said:
    hehehe ;-)
    Both did a decent job of focus really given I was at the minimum focus distance for the lens and the birds were silhouetted against the background.
  • James Lagden said:
    Score for the 30D!
  • accesser said:
    Sweet great comparison 1.6X crop is good for the extra reach but then not so great in low light, If only they would make APS-C cams with less pixels squished up and more light sensitive ones.
  • David de Groot said:
    And interestingly, if I crop the 5DII image down to the same field of view, I end up with an image only slightly higher in resolution than the 30D (and I mean slightly, there's only about 100px in both directions difference).
    FF also gives you a more obvious shallow DoF perceptually because you get to see more the out-of-focus region at the edges, even though there's actually no physical difference in the DoF if all other factors stay the same.
  • mitchell burns said:
    cool... but the bad thing about the cropping is with wide angle lenses on DX format :( lol
  • FarshadPix.com said:
    Thanks for these test shoTs
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    Seen on your photo stream. (?)
  • David de Groot said:
    Yeah next time I'm out shooting a landscape, I'll do two at 17mm to show the vast difference at the wide end.
    np
  • Jack High said:
    That's a very interesting comparison. Thanks for taking the time and sharing.
  • David de Groot said:
    I'll do another at the wide end at some stage to show the advantage of full frame.