I worked with a few photogs yesterday with a high haute couture kind of stuff... Seeing full frame in action... I'm sold. Except... I've still got to spend the money; ug. Why is photography so expensive... My sportscar fund really isn't working out so well.
I think it depends on what you are shooting. Full frame works well for low light situations. My Nikon d700 makes perfectly usable images at 3200 Iso, shot raw and processed with DxO. For sports, I like having the magnification of the dx sensor, makes my 70-200 F2.8 go out to 300 at 2.8. A teleconverter will give me the longer focal length on FX, but at the expense of f stop.
Yeah, I'm not going to get rid of my 40D. But yeah... 70-200 2.8 and 17-40 F4 both will work well in full frame
I looked into my finances, and I'm able to pull the trigger on it real soon... might wait til Jan/Feb for some of the news relating to the MK III whether or not that will happen.
I had a full frame 5D and while I did love to have full frame, I also didn't really like it enough to make it worth keeping. The image quality is unparalleled and thats what I miss the most. That said shooting anything except large landscapes with a wide angle is next to impossible since the symmetry is always off, lots of distortion with the 17-40, then again maybe I'm too lazy to learn to do it right. I always found myself zooming in from 17 to 24 or so when shooting cars which kind of defeats the whole purpose.
And that defeated the purpose of it for me, since to really take advantage of it, one you are really limited when using a wide angle and two you need to buy new glass with FF optimized focal lengths. Heres an example of the 5D at 17mm, I didn't even bother editing this one. I'm personally much happier with a much more usable and much cheaper 1.4x crop. Image Unavailable, Please Login
No problem, I don't want to completely dissuade you since FF really is fantastic, you just go backwards in some respects and you really have to think about what you're doing and what the result is really going to turn out like. I still miss the IQ from that camera, but I'd sell it again given the chance.
Before I decided to sell I was going to sell my 17-40 and get a 24-105, pretty equal IQ, but you get a much better range for FF, I just didn't want put more money in and thus I ended up just selling the whole lot.
I respectfully disagree. I think the wider focal lengths in full frame are great, but they require a lot of care. I find myself composing from the edges in. Here are a few examples, all of them shot at 14 mm full frame. Cheers, Ron Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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If you want FF and don't want to spend the dough, you can always get a used 35mm camera quite cheaply. I have one of these... Image Unavailable, Please Login
FWIW. 100 best photos of the year. Quite a few of them (majority it seems) shot with the 5D mk.II http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2011/11/21/best-photos-of-the-year-2011/#a=1
