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Think back only a year ago. Nikon's flagship cameras had the same megapixel count as their crop factor equivalents. It was Canon who originally crammed more megapixels in and now Nikon has followed suit with their stupendously high resolution sensors.
The benefit of the large sensors really shine when you see the depth of field produced. Depth of field is a function of camera to subject and subject to background distances. The above image is an example of a background that is reasonably far compared to the subject to camera distance. Hence there's ok depth of field. On a full frame camera with an equivalent field of view you may likely not even recognise the tools in the background. This is less of an issue in this picture which would result in a half a face being clearly out of focus, but when the camera to subject distance increases it becomes more and more difficult to separate a subject from a background.
Incredible depth of field can be seen in pictures like this:https://secure.flickr.com/photos/maximiumlagstudios/4241245102/ https://secure.flickr.com/photos/spaz-winchester/4142266646/ https://secure.flickr.com/photos/samiheiskanenphotography/7077912159/ https://secure.flickr.com/photos/f_l_e_t_c_h/7823285720/ which are not reproducible on a 4/3s camera, especially the first.
The benefit of the large sensors really shine when you see the depth of field produced. Depth of field is a function of camera to subject and subject to background distances. The above image is an example of a background that is reasonably far compared to the subject to camera distance. Hence there's ok depth of field. On a full frame camera with an equivalent field of view you may likely not even recognise the tools in the background. This is less of an issue in this picture which would result in a half a face being clearly out of focus, but when the camera to subject distance increases it becomes more and more difficult to separate a subject from a background.
Incredible depth of field can be seen in pictures like this:https://secure.flickr.com/photos/maximiumlagstudios/4241245102/ https://secure.flickr.com/photos/spaz-winchester/4142266646/ https://secure.flickr.com/photos/samiheiskanenphotography/7077912159/ https://secure.flickr.com/photos/f_l_e_t_c_h/7823285720/ which are not reproducible on a 4/3s camera, especially the first.
