
FULL FRAME SLR CANON FULL
‘More Bokeh’ (Kinda)Īnother advantage of a full frame camera is its ability to capture “more bokeh” than a crop sensor camera. There will be greater latitude to recover blown-out highlights or deeper shadows over a similar image captured with a cropped image sensor. This translates into being able to shoot more contrasty images, or, when an image is over or under-exposed, being more likely to save an image with post-processing thanks to that added dynamic range. Deeper blacks, and more detail in the areas of higher exposure. Since they typically have larger pixel sites, full-frame sensors are generally superior at capturing better and less noisy photos in low-light environments.Īs a result, a full-frame sensor, though larger than APS-C or Micro 4/3s, offers better low light performance, and a sharper image.įull frame cameras also enjoy a greater dynamic range, offering far more detail in the extremes of light and dark. But the difference is in noise, particularly in low light. There are APS-C 4K sensors and full frame 4K sensors.

This isn’t about the resolution of the image, mind you.

The larger the sensor, the more light the sensor can gather, and with far less noise. The benefits of a full frame sensor over other sensor sizes are rather obvious. Illustration by Rama and licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 FR. An illustration showing how the same lens will produce a wider angle of view on a full frame camera compared to an APS-C camera, and how a 70mm lens on a full frame is the 35mm equivalent to 50mm on an APS-C. Photographers working in certain genres such as landscape photography and real estate photography may benefit from their lenses capturing more of any given scene. Wider Field of ViewĪ lens will have a wider angle of view on a full frame camera than it does on a crop sensor camera. Based on illustration by Хрюша licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. The size of full frame relative to other common image sensor formats.

With more pixel site real estate on its larger surface, full-frame sensors usually offer a higher resolution than crop sensors. In spite of the lengthy development time, however, sensors are now surpassing resolution quality, making the baseline comparison to film somewhat antiquated. And while full frame cameras have been around for nearly a decade, it’s only recently that the image sensors have been able to reach the same physical resolution as film. Advantages of Full Frame Cameras More ResolutionĪccording to Kodak, a full frame of 35mm film has an effective resolution of 6K. There are larger image sizes than full frame - sensor formats known as medium format and large format - but the classic 35mm frame remains the reference size for the term “full frame” and the size by which crop factors are measured.
