For those who have gone back to FF from crop format...

For those who have gone back to FF from crop format...

...was there any adjustment period?

I started with film cameras. Went to a crop format digital in 2004-ish. Sold all my film gear in 2008-ish, so have been crop format since. Am now thinking about getting a FF DSLR.

I don't recall any significant growing pains going to crop, so I don't expect any now. Just wonder what other's experiences have been.

photoguy6405 wrote in post #17082561
For those who have gone back to FF from crop format...

...was there any adjustment period?

I started with film cameras. Went to a crop format digital in 2004-ish. Sold all my film gear in 2008-ish, so have been 1005 crop format since. Am now thinking about getting a FF DSLR.

I don't recall any significant growing pains going to crop, so I don't expect any now. Just wonder what other's experiences have been.

What is a 1005 crop format?

john crossley wrote in post #17082568
What is a 1005 crop format?

Well, a whole number of cameras...the question is, is there a benefit from going to a crop sensor body?

Plenty of people are saying "yeah" because they are enjoying the mirrorless 4x5 bodies...others appreciate what the full-frame bodies offer!!

john crossley wrote in post #17082568
What is a 1005 crop format?

No idea. It was a typo. Fixed it.

Grown as only 135 film user, kept using it until 2007, with digital P&S as alternative for small prints from 2005.
Went to Digital Rebel in 2009. Couple of years after acquired 5D.
I would describe it as "back to normal" where my 50mm is 50mm on FF and not something like my eye looking into the keyhole with croppe.
It was huge difference, actually. I have only Nifty Fifty for months on 5D and it was nothing but joy and fun to use. While on Rebel it was next to useless.

Your longest lenses on crop are no longer long enough on the full frame. Need to buy more expensive glass.

makes no difference to me, I use both, 40D and 5D3

phantelope wrote in post #17085046
makes no difference to me, I use both, 40D and 5D3

This

I am another that uses both crop and full frame. They each have benefits, I use whichever is best suited to the job in hand.

So, whilst I also grew up on film (35mm and MF) and got a crop body as my first DSLR, going back to full frame (when the original 5D came out) was easy to adjust to because I still had the crop body as well. Since then both the cropper and the 5D have been replaced by newer versions, but I always intend to have both crop and FF in my arsenal.

My first thoughts on going back to FF though, when I got the 5D after a year of crop only, were looking through the VF and seeing all that lovely shallow DOF I had been missing out on and thinking "I'm home". It was nice to see things from a 35mm point of view again.

Count me in the using both as well.

I've eased the transition. Went from a 7D to a 1D4 to a 1DX, and really have felt no pain. There are times I need more reach and as a result when shooting birds or wildlife, the 2X III extender is almost always on the 1DX. But generally, I am still marvelling about the capability of the 1DX to miss the crop factor of the 7D.

I have a 7D and a 5DIII and for me there was no adjustment period. You will notice that the same lens will seem wider on the FF and longer on the crop body but you look through the viewfinder and frame the shot however you want it. You may have to do a little foot zooming to get the same perspective with a given camera but really it's not a big deal.

I've handled lots of cameras with lots of different sensor formats over the years. Personally I don't find the sensor size itself to really change all that much with how I use a camera, and that aspect feels no different than changing to a different lens.


What is different is how things actually function. Dynamic range, controls, weight, etc. All of those issues have an actual impact, where as the sensor size really doesn't do much beyond feel a little different for the first few seconds you're looking through the eye piece.

I once had to take a photo for some friends with another's friend's 5D with 40mm while initially thinking it was my 7D with the same lens. Owner of the 5D had grabbed my camera off the table to run off and do something else, and I hadn't realized that I was holding the wrong camera till it was halfway to my eye. The change in angle of view was far less of an impact on taking the photo than the camera having completely different controls than what I was expecting.

But I have used image sensors that ranged from the size of the eye of a large sewing needle, up to a 10'x10' one. (Yes, feet, not inches.) It really isn't something worth dwelling on. Focus on what you want to do with your photography, and find gear that meets those needs.

sandpiper wrote in post #17085444
I am another that uses both crop and full frame. They each have benefits, I use whichever is best suited to the job in hand.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Sometimes my crop body will produce the best, highest quality image of a given subject in a given situation, while in other situations my full frame body will produce the better image. I am glad to have different options from which to choose.

Im a double user as well.

My introductory camera was the t2i or 550d.

Had it for about 2 years or so and then upgraded to the 5dc.

Night and day. I fell in love with the 5d and wish I had jumped sooner.

Kf095 got it right. I could get rid of all my lens now and keep just my yashica 50ml 1.9 and be perfectly happy.

My rebel on the other hand, has HD video and has the extra reach so with my 55-250, I can go birding and to the zoo etc.