Full frame V crop?

[nikonian]

Originally Posted by Forseti

Um, let's also not forget that for a full frame camera you also need top quality glass to stick in front of it otherwise every imperfection of the lens will be greatly magnified - diffraction and vignetting to mention but two. A cropped frame camera giving a reduced FOV (field of view) and hence giving the illusion of having zoomed in is much more forgiving

You do not make sense here saying that the shot will be greatly magnified with a full frame camera. A cropped shot is magnified more to equal the shot size of a full frame camera. Giving the impression of a longer focal length lens.

[Forseti]

Originally Posted by nikonian

You do not make sense here saying that the shot will be greatly magnified with a full frame camera..

It would help greatly if you improved upon your ability to read because I said "every imperfection of the lens will be greatly magnified" - and not that the shot will be greatly magnified.

[nikonian]

Originally Posted by Forseti

It would help greatly if you improved upon your ability to read because I said "every imperfection of the lens will be greatly magnified" - and not that the shot will be greatly magnified.

Sorry, but you are on a steep learning curve and you are trying to keep up with the big boys. Any imperfection with the lens will show on the print, more so with a cropped camera as it is a larger print. The only one that is excused is vignetting as the shot will be minus the outer periphery of the lens.

[flake]

What a strange way to look at this! Clearly you do not have a D3x nikonian!

The problem that high MP FF cameras have is that they use a greater portion of the image circle, and by the laws of physics the image quality towards the borders, particularly the corners can deterioriate significantly. Some lenses are so poor that this is very noticeable.

This was a problem in the days of film, but perhaps you only joined us for the digital switch over?

[nikonian]

Originally Posted by flake

What a strange way to look at this! Clearly you do not have a D3x nikonian!

The problem that high MP FF cameras have is that they use a greater portion of the image circle, and by the laws of physics the image quality towards the borders, particularly the corners can deterioriate significantly. Some lenses are so poor that this is very noticeable.

This was a problem in the days of film, but perhaps you only joined us for the digital switch over?

I go back to the days of magnesium powder for flash. In the early days there were a lot of lens makers in Japan,some of them like the bottom of a beer bottle. But today the quality of lens has improved greatly.Having just purchased two 50mm lens Nikon and Canon I compared them at F1.4. I used the Canon on a 5D and was amazed at the good edge to edge shots. The Nikon was used on a D90 with its small sensor so that doesn`t count. The old film camera makers Knew this so they made the image on the focal plane larger than the 36*24. This outer edge was known as the circle of illumination.