Ken Reminds Us Why FF is Cool
I was going to write about this myself, but Ken beat me to it.
For some reason, I’m STILL seeing people that really should know better say that they’ll use to D3 for most of their shooting and then use the D300 when they “need a little more reach on the long lenses”.
This drives me nuts. How can a pro with enough cash to buy both bodies confuse a 1.5x CROP with a 1.5x MAGNIFICATION? And I thought I had more money than talent…
If you really want more MAGNIFICATION, then slap on a teleconverter.
Anyway, Ken also reminds us that you get better images (color, detail, etc) from worse lenses when you get a bigger image area- ever seen lenses from a large format camera? They’re not all that good and somehow they still make amazing shots.
He also shows us some really interesting shots with the Canon FF vs the D200 and it makes the shots from the D200 look like mud.
Anyway, here’s the article.
September 17th, 2007 at 08:59
Large format lenses are amazingly sharp, I don’t know why you refer to them as “not all that good”. At $2500-10,000 a pop for a lens with no autofocus, no zoom, and no weather sealing etc, you’re basically paying for a beautiful piece of glass.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:01
I should be more clear and say that you can get away with lesser lenses given that the magnification is generally far less.