What do I need to know for full frame?

[Lmphotos]

I am getting the Mark II (order placed today) I am upgrading from a t2i. I already know this will not make me a better photographer I am specifically getting it for the higher ISO capability. I know I am loosing my crop factor, but anything else that goes along with shooting full frame?

 

[o hey tyler]

I am getting the Mark II (order placed today) I am upgrading from a t2i. I already know this will not make me a better photographer I am specifically getting it for the higher ISO capability. I know I am loosing my crop factor, but anything else that goes along with shooting full frame?

One major thing that I had to get used to is that your DoF will be much shallower when compared to a a subject shot with an aps-c DSLR with the same framing, lens and aperture. Specifically because you are closer to your subject with a full frame camera and therefore closer to your minimum focus distance.

Also, there's no pop up flash.

 

[Lmphotos]

Did not know about the DoF!

 

[Derrel]

Full frame makes all of the prime lenses more-easily utilized in smaller rooms indoors. On 1.6x Canon, indoors, an 85mm focal length has a very narrow angle of view. On FF, the same 85mm lens becomes more easily used for a variety of compositions...you no longer need to be 35 feet away to shoot a full-length, head-to-toe portrait for an 8x10 crop, but can instead pull off the same shot from 20 feet. With shallower DOF. And, as stated, from 20 feet!!! Indoors, the 24mm becomes a "real" wide-angle. 35mm becomes super-handy for parties and events, and even some portraiture. 50mm becomes a high-speed normal. 24,28,35,50,85,100, 135--all of those prime lenses were developed in the days when people shot pics with small, hand-held cameras on 24x36 size capture medium (aka 'film'). Full frame digital allows the photographer to use these long-established prime lenses in the traditional manner, at normal distances, and inside of real-world apartments, offices, churches, living rooms, back yards, etc..

 

[bratkinson]

One change to FF not mentioned is your EF-S lenses will not mount on a full frame camera. They are designed for crop-body use only. So you may find you suddenly need to buy a lens or two...

You'll also discover the 5D ii body is surprisingly bigger and heavier than your T2i. I moved from a 60D to a 5D3 a month ago and the size differential surprised me. Bigger mirror, bigger sensor and bigger, I assume, electronics to go with it. Titanium rather than plastic body, as well.

 

[Lmphotos]

luckily I only had one EF-s lens and it was the kit lens......about a month into the t2i I knew I was going to go FF eventually due to the noise so I only bought EF lenses so glad I did!

 

[sekhar]

You'll be delightfully surprised by how much bigger and brighter the viewfinder is. Makes it so much easier to focus manually.

 

[MK3Brent]

Looking through FF viewfinders will make you realize how claustrophobic crop sensor camera's view finders are. (Same is true up to large format film cameras under the dark cloth. )