![]() I used each camera how I would typically shoot, including stopping down the aperture on some of the lenses that aren’t quite as sharp or are difficult to get fully in focus. To be clear, this is a test I did for myself. ![]() What’s your guess? Which one was shot on a crop sensor? Since I hadn’t fallen deeply in love with a particular camera, I decided to speed date, for cameras, that is.Ĭropped to show bokeh Can You Tell the Difference? I also asked some non-photographer friends which photo they liked better. I asked The Phoblographer staff if they could guess which photo came from which camera. When you consider that some crop cameras have brighter lenses, does the APS-C vs. One of the things I looked at was whether or not using the X-T4 with a bright prime would be enough to compare with the D850 and my most used lens, the 24-70mm f2.8. I’m not pretentious enough to think that professional photographers can only use full-frame cameras. The first and most obvious question, of course, is how much does that smaller sensor matter? I started my career with a crop sensor DSLR. The remaining four are full-frame mirrorless cameras: The Canon EOS R6, Nikon Z6 II, Sony a7 III, and the Panasonic S5. One of those bodies is the Fujifilm X-T4. Most were from LensRentals, but a few I had on loan from the manufacturer. I rented five camera bodies and portrait prime lenses. Since I hadn’t fallen deeply in love with a particular camera, I decided to speed date, for cameras, that is. ![]() And, well, the lens is half the equation when it comes to image quality - if not more. But, I hadn’t tested the mirrorless bodies with the lens that I would use. As the Reviews Editor at The Phoblographer, I’ve shot with more camera bodies than the average photographer. But, unlike when I first held the Nikon D850 a few years ago, I haven’t had that this-is-the-one feeling. I’m in the middle of jumping ship from DSLR to mirrorless. Obvious words of thanks also go out to the manufacturers. full-frame just by looking at the resulting images?Įditor’s Note: A very big thank you goes out to LensRentals who helped with this project. But, just how much does size matter? Can you tell when a photograph was taken with a crop sensor and when it was taken with a full-frame sensor? Without looking at metadata, can you pick out APS-C Vs. And, more important even than megapixels, is the sensor’s size. Yes, the processor plays a role here too, but the sensor is the biggest determining factor in how images from the camera body look. If there’s one single item on a camera’s list of technical specifications that indicates image quality, it’s the image sensor.
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