#Crop sensor vs full frame canon macro manual

I found though that the lovely high resolution, high dynamic range D850 files much nicer to work with and more flexible than the D500 files.īy way of illustration, the image heading the post was shot with the Nikon D850 and Tamron 90mm macro lens and shows a young tree weta including most of its long antennae. This raised the question of whether a cheap entry level mirrorless would be the best option for a dedicated macro setup. Success rates with image stacks for focus stacking is much higher, sequential images being more precise and accurate. My thinking is that the higher pixel density of most crop sensore gives an advantage, am I right in that reasoning or am I missing something macro.

Both alternatives are well within budget so that is not an issue. Macro is the one genre of photography where the EVF is a really big advantage. Is it best to recomend a full frame or a crop sensor camera in this case.

#Crop sensor vs full frame canon macro manual

The large viewfinder of the full frame D850 was a much nicer tool to work with but macro highlighted the benefit of mirrorless bodies as focus peaking with manual focus with an electronic viewfinder (EVF)is much easier to gauge than with an optical view finder (OVF). I started working with both Nikon D850 and D500 DSLR bodies and Nikon 60mm micro, 105mm AFD micro and Tamron 90mm macro lenses. If it were related to sensor size, cropping a full frame sensor image in photoshop would magically create an image with a greater depth of field. The confusion arises because a shorter focal length lens on a crop sensor gives the field of view of a longer lens on a larger sensor and it is the longer focal length lens that narrows depth of field. Increased depth of field is also promoted as an advantage of crop sensors in some places despite the depth of field being a consequence of lens focal length, aperture and subject distance and unrelated to sensor size. A 1:1 macro lens can only project a life size image regardless of sensor size.

Some sites even suggest that they enable a 1:1 macro lens to give you 1.5:1 reproduction ratio for DX or 2:1 for MFT sensors! Suffice it to say that sensor size doesn’t alter the dimensions of the image projected onto it by the lens. There is a lot of information on the internet but as always there is also a lot of misinformation.Ĭrop factor sensors are at times touted as more useful for macro as it can be easier to fill the frame. But crop sensor cameras increase your effective focal length, which is often useful for wildlife and bird photographers. This has several practical effects: Full frame cameras have better high-ISO performance and more megapixels. My macro journey to date has included investigating gear options that suit this genre of photography. Full frame cameras have a larger (35mm) sensor compared to crop sensor cameras. High resolution full frame sensors offer similar benefits with macro photography allowing more cropping options. I have written previously on the advantages of a high resolution full frame sensor for bird photography. Young Tree Weta photgraphed on a fern leaf