Why I Love Full-Frame

[JustJazzie]

Don't you have a Df?

Look at lower cost AF-D lenses
that's how I got the ball rolling. There is so much out there and low cost. The Df is only 16mp so you don't have to worry about the problem the d8x0 has with needing the best lenses available.
I bought my 18-35/3.5-4.6 AF-D lens for about $280 I think. A far cry below the 18-35 G at $750. And all the other comparisons are the same price-wise.

I do! But plans for Lens's were side swiped by unexpected medical bills, our well pump needing replaced (to the tune of $6k) and needing to register a car with a (ridiculously expensive) "new car tax.

I'm hoping in the next month or two, I will be able to get the 28-105 f3.5-4.5. It seems like a pretty sweet lens for the price, and then I can decide what route I want to take for lens. I'm debating between some nice vintage primes + a new 70-200, or just holding out and getting some awesome zooms, (24-70 2.8, and 70-200 f4) I've never been a huge prime fan but I'm wondering if I should try to become one for the cost savings...

 

[Vince.1551]

Toyota Altis 1.6L stock model cost $110,000 at where I am. And you could only drive for 10 years lol


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[photoguy99]

Medium format is even better! Go to 4x5! You'll never go back. It maybe you will.

 

[Vince.1551]

Yeah if you are willing to sponsor lol


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[D-B-J]

Medium format is even better! Go to 4x5! You'll never go back. It maybe you will.

Yeah... Maybe one day...

 

[Mach0]

I love the lowlight abilities and the DOF control ,like yourself, even when stopped down and nice sharp image. It's very nice


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[Derrel]

I shot a pair of cameras for a long time, a Nikon D2x from May of 2005 and then added a Canon 5D from spring of 2006 to late winter of 2012, when I replaced both with a used D3x. What I like about full frame is what it does for the lenses I own. It makes the 70-200/2.8 a really versatile lens; it makes the 50mm a light, small normal angle of view lens for neutral foreground/background compression; it makes the 300mm f/4 a light telephoto that is not uber-tight and which does not crop every single thing off;full frame makes the 85mm lens very USABLE indoors.

You know my example: 85mm lens covers an 8.47 foot tall field of view at 20 feet on full-frame, same 8.47 foot field on DX requires me to move back to 34 feet. Shooting-wise, full frame has a larger viewfinder so I can SEE what I am composing better than with a smaller viewfinder image. I started with the 135 size,( 24x36mm capture frame) and lenses for it in 1975, and have a lot of experience with that format. I think it is the best format we've ever had for social photography. I'm not into wildlife shooting, but if I were, I would emphasize crop-frame more I think.

 

[Josh66]

awaiting the haters in 3, 2...

There is literally no difference between a FF and a Crop camera if you take all the differences out of the equation.

a $99 P&S is virtually the same as a $299 P&S
and the $299 P&S is virtually the same as the $300 dslr
and the $300 dslr is virtually the same as the $900 dslr
and the $900 dslr is virtually the same as the $2000 dslr

as long as you discount the differences to a trivial status
then the $99 P&S is as good as the $2000 dslr

This is exactly the logic that allows me to stop working a half hour before lunch, lol.

 

[Designer]

I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

better low light performance
better DOF control
better lens performance
larger viewfinder
The ability to piss off the occasional observer by taking casual snapshots with a $5,000 camera and lens combo.

 

[Derrel]

The ability to piss off the occasional observer by taking casual snapshots with a $5,000 camera and lens combo.

This is really what photography is all about.

 

[JerryVenz]

A full frame, 20+ MP, camera is the MINIMUM requirement in the professional portrait world--if you want to sell 24X30, 30X40 or 50" wall prints.

It wasn't until we bought our Canon 5d MKII that we finally produced wall prints that matched the quality of prints already on our wall created from 6X7 cm negatives.

 

[robbins.photo]

What I love best about full frame? Everytime Nikon comes out with a new one the prices on the crop sensor stuff drops accordingly, and better yet a lot of folks with the high end crop sensor stuff sell it off to go full frame.

Yup.. love full frame. Lol

 

[astroNikon]

Don't you have a Df?

Look at lower cost AF-D lenses
that's how I got the ball rolling. There is so much out there and low cost. The Df is only 16mp so you don't have to worry about the problem the d8x0 has with needing the best lenses available.
I bought my 18-35/3.5-4.6 AF-D lens for about $280 I think. A far cry below the 18-35 G at $750. And all the other comparisons are the same price-wise.

I do! But plans for Lens's were side swiped by unexpected medical bills, our well pump needing replaced (to the tune of $6k) and needing to register a car with a (ridiculously expensive) "new car tax.

I'm hoping in the next month or two, I will be able to get the 28-105 f3.5-4.5. It seems like a pretty sweet lens for the price, and then I can decide what route I want to take for lens. I'm debating between some nice vintage primes + a new 70-200, or just holding out and getting some awesome zooms, (24-70 2.8, and 70-200 f4) I've never been a huge prime fan but I'm wondering if I should try to become one for the cost savings...

A couple sweet inexpensive lenses:
Nikon 24-85 / 2.8 - 4.0 AF-D
Nikon 35-70/2.8 AF-D push pull. This is hte predecessor of the 28-70/2.8 and newer 24-70/2.8
for UWA the Nikon 18-35/3.5-4.6 AF-D
and of course the 80-200/2.8 AF-D

 

[snerd]

I tell ya what............ when I strap my 70-200L f/2.8 IS II onto my 5D3..................... things start happening!!

I make a rich woman beg
I'll make a good woman steal
I'll make an old woman blush
And make a young girl squeal

And when I walk the streets
Kings and Queens step aside
Every woman I meet
They all stay satisfied

I wanna tell ya pretty baby
Well Ya see I make my own
I'm here to tell ya honey
That I'm bad to the bone

Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone!!!!!!!!

Now if I could just take a decent pic!!

 

[bribrius]

suppose if nothing else and you get attacked or mugged or something you will have a bigger item to swing at them.