![]() I prioritize compactness over weight in my camera bag, so YMMV. Just to get this out there: I do landscapes and shoot a lot at medium(ish) apertures (f/4 - f/9). This whole post is admittedly a bit of an edge case. Sorry for the click-baity / rage inducing first sentence. For a lot of landscape photographers that will be not much of a problem.Īps-c has better resolution than full frame. Of course, you could use a lens with the same focal length that we used for comparison on a full frame, but it means the medium format will end up with a wider field of view. You need to use even smaller apertures with the increase risk of sharpness degradation (due to light refraction). Getting everything in the scene within acceptable sharpness will be more difficult. Trying to get the same image as a full frame they need to have a longer focal length and thus decreasing the depth of field when keeping distance and aperture the same. Compared to full frame these cameras have a crop that is 0.7 times the full frame sensor. (Canon EOS 5D mark IV EF16-35L 16mm | ISO100 | f/8 | 1,3sec - 3 photos stack)įor those who have one of those beautiful medium format cameras will suffer even more when trying to achieve a maximum depth of field. If you cannot reach the depth of field you want you have the possibility of using focus-stacking. At some point the difference becomes almost too small to notice, except maybe for the landscape photographer that is searching for the absolute maximum depth of field. (source: The difference in depth of field increases when using longer focal lengths and decreases with shorter focal lengths. When the aperture and distance to the subject stays the same, you will have a depth of field that runs from 0.62 meter up to infinity. If you would trade the full frame for a 1.6 crop camera, you will need a 15mm wide angle to have the same field of view. When you have made a composition with the subject at 1.5 meters distance, and you use a full frame camera with 24mm wide angle lens and an aperture of f/11, you will have a depth of field that runs from 0.8 meter up to 10.7 meter. That is because you need a shorter focal length to have the same field of view. I explained how a small sensor size increases the depth of field when you try to achieve a similar photo made with a larger sensor. If you haven’t read it, then perhaps it is good to have a look at it. Let go back to my previous article about the influence of sensor size on depth of field. Due to that shorter focal length you will have a larger depth of field when aperture and distance to the subject is the same. ![]() When using a crop camera like this Fujifilm X-Pro 2 you need a 10mm focal length if you wish the same viewing angle as a 15mm on a full frame. So you can wonder what the benefit is of using a large sensor size for landscape photography? Why not using a smaller sensor? ![]() Thus the dynamic range of a camera for landscape photography is not really necessary (I know, I know, this is a tricky thing to say, because a larger dynamic range can make the use exposure bracketing or filters unnecessary).Įxcept maybe a high pixel count, these two arguments for choosing a large sensor seem not really that important. And for those who don’t see the need for filters, there is always the possibility of using exposure bracketing. Therefor the risk of noise is very low and for that particular reason it is not necessary to use a larger sensor.Ĭoncerning dynamic range, a lot of landscape photographers love using filters to decrease the dynamic range of our scenery. When shooting landscapes we almost always try to use an ISO value as low as possible. Using a full frame camera with a wide angle in combination with a small aperture makes a very large depth of field.(Canon EOS 5D mark IV EF24-70L 24mm | ISO1600 | f/9 | 1/100)
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