If FF really that much better?

[JustJazzie]

Oh that stinks. Hope it fixes itself

Thanks. I do to. I dropped my cell phone in my coffee earlier this week and the lcd screen is toast. But it did turn on long enough for the alarm to keep going off without a way for me to tell it to stop. Since all bad things come in threes I am bracing myself for the near future.....

Edit: I just remembered that earlier this week I ran my remote shutter release through the washing machine. Perhaps I don't need to brace myself after all. Not if only I could figure out where this karma is coming from!

 

[gsgary]

Whats your camera doing in your purse

 

[JustJazzie]

Whats your camera doing in your purse

it was going with me!

 

[gsgary]

Whats your camera doing in your purse

it was going with me!

Don't you have a camera bag

 

[JustJazzie]

Don't you have a camera bag

I do.....and it's busy holding all my extras; Lens, speedlight, radio triggers...blah blah blah... My camera usually sits on the top of a book shelf away from kids. But I was heading out so I thr... I mean set it gently, into my purse. In my defense though, it's a soft case so it doesn't offer any more protection that my purse does. I HAD a nice hard case, that I sold with my canon xsi. Oh hindsight I HATE you.

 

[gsgary]

You will need a good bag for th 5Dmk3 I use a Billingham Hadley Pro for my Leica's and A7

 

[Solarflare]

Well, FF ist better, IF:

- You want shallow depth of field. Like in, DRASTIC amounts of shallow depth of field. As in, you would just love to use an 300mm f5.6 wide open on a 10x8 large format camera, but a Canon EF 50mm f1 and Canon EF 85mm f1.2 instead would actually do, too. Or a Noctilux on Leica M, of course.

- You want lowlight and the extra of FF over APS-C in this area is actually still worthwhile to you.

- You want the best lens selection currently possible. Which means Nikon or Canon. Mind, they arent infallible, theres special lenses they lack - but nobody else has such a good general flexible lens selection.

- The small resolution advantage (24 Megapixel vs 36 Megapixel) of FF over APS-C is somehow important for you.

- You want the higher quality bodies (like D4 or D800, for Nikon). Not available in this quality for APS-C right now (the D300s is OLD).

There is also a small advantage over APS-C when it comes to dynamic range and color depth, but lets face it: this is really a quite small difference and you just wont see it in most pictures.