full frame

[ldrcvr]

What is the difference between a full frame dslr and other cameras?

 

[480sparky41 40]

Like what other cameras? Crop sensor DSLR? P&S's? Medium format? Film? View? EVILs?

 

[rexbobcat]

Full frame cameras automatically make the photographer a professional.

It's the photography equivalent of a Master's degree

 

[pixmedic]

Full frame cameras automatically make the photographer a professional.

It's the photography equivalent of a Master's degree

I almost spit my drink out when i saw this... Too funny.

 

[Chris R]

Digital Camera Sensor Sizes: How it Influences Your Photography

 

[480sparky41 40]

Full frame cameras automatically make the photographer a professional.

It's the photography equivalent of a Master's degree

So if you buy a FF camera, but not lenses?................

 

[Patrice]

Just to be a bit pedantic I say that every camera, regardless of format or medium, is a full frame camera in that it will expose it's entire sensor, or dedicated area of film, at every exposure.

However the term full frame, has more currently come to mean the difference between a 135 format sized sensor (size of a traditional 35 mm SLR exposure) and a smaller, like P&S or APS-C size, sensor. For example a Nikon FX format camera has a sensor that is about 42 mm in the diagonal compared to a DX format Nikon which has a sensor of about a 28 mm in the diagonal. The FX is said to be full frame while the DX is said to be cropped.

edit: Olympus had a film camera that was 'half frame' in that it used regular 35mm film but the camera exposed an area only half as big as a regular 35mm slr. So the camera got twice as many exposures on a roll (portrait orientation) as a regular 35 mm slr. Also, some digital backs for MF cameras have a sensor size somewhat smaller than their film backs, so these could be said to be 'cropped' as well even if their sensors are bigger than 42mm in diagonal.

 

[pixmedic]

So if you buy a FF camera, but not lenses?................

Lenses upgrade you to the PHD

 

[480sparky41 40]

Lenses upgrade you to the PHD

So if I get a FF body, a lens, AND a VND, I have a Bachelors?



BTW, PHD stands for Push Here, Dummy!

 

[RacePhoto]

So if you buy a FF camera, but not lenses?................

Lenses upgrade you to the PHD

When I was in college it meant Piled Higher and Deeper?

"That's a big camera, you must be a professional."

 

[KmH]

A full frame image sensor is generally understood to be the same size as a 135 format film frame, or 36 mm x 24 mm. 135 film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 135 format is also known as 35 mm.
The 135 mm format is also known as small format and became popular in the late 1960s, supplanting the 120 format (medium format) which was the first amateur film format . 120 film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Crop sensor DSLRs use APS-H, APS-C, Foveon, 4/3, and even smaller image sensors.

 

[unpopular]

full frame? 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" ofcourse

(hopefully someone will get this)

 

[BrianV]

If you own a lot of lenses, and are used to using a 35mm film camera- "full-frame" digital makes sense. It allows the same field-of-view, the same "rendering" as what you are used to.

For new photographers not brought up on film, without a large collection of lenses- start with what you can afford and learn how to use it. Larger sensors cost more to make, and the cameras start in the $2000 range. Some lenses make that price look cheap.

 

[Solarflare]

The main advantage of "full frame" or rather full small format is really that its currently the largest digital sensor size that can be done in ONE step, thus resulting in a bearable failure rate in production and not too high costs for the final sensor (we still talk about prices of about half a thousand dollar/euro here, though).

These sensors, right now, are the climax of high ISO performance. Cameras like the Nikon D600 and D4 and the Canon 6D and 5D Mk III are the current climax of lowlight photography.

Its also about the largest sensor size if you still want to use the camera in question handheld in a comfortable way. Of course that kind of depends upon other parameters as well. The Mamiya camera that Ken Rockwell loves so much ("the worlds best camera, period") for example uses lenses that are really dark (f/4 and worse) and thus small, and has not much in respect to features, especially also its a rangefinder for additional compactness.

 

[Village Idiot]

The main advantage of "full frame" or rather full small format is really that its currently the largest digital sensor size that can be done in ONE step, thus resulting in a bearable failure rate in production and not too high costs for the final sensor (we still talk about prices of about half a thousand dollar/euro here, though).

These sensors, right now, are the climax of high ISO performance. Cameras like the Nikon D600 and D4 and the Canon 6D and 5D Mk III are the current climax of lowlight photography.

Its also about the largest sensor size if you still want to use the camera in question handheld in a comfortable way. Of course that kind of depends upon other parameters as well. The Mamiya camera that Ken Rockwell loves so much ("the worlds best camera, period") for example uses lenses that are really dark (f/4 and worse) and thus small, and has not much in respect to features, especially also its a rangefinder for additional compactness.

Is this different than say a MF Phase One, Hasselblad, Pentax, etc...?

I'd also argue about the comfortable comment. I would shoot all day with a digital MF camera without complaint. That boils down to personal preference.