Metabones speedbooster: is there any reason to get full frame now?

Started 4 months ago | Discussion thread
Erik Magnuson
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Re: I don't think that word operates the way you think it operates....
In reply to Phil Hill, 4 months ago

Phil Hill wrote:

You don’t yet understand what I’m saying.

I understand what you are saying but you don't seem to understand what's happening with the total system of lens + sensor.

The larger sensor can capture and process twice as many photons per exposure as the smaller sensor.

And the lens+telecompressor provides twice as many photons for the same FOV/DOF as you get with the lens alone on the larger sensor.

This has nothing to do with the lens or the aperture, but it has everything to do with signal-to-noise ratio, and this impacts DR, resolution and color as the ISO rises.

But the ISO rises less when you can use the telecompressor!

Given similar technology, the larger sensor will always perform better in this regard over the entire image.

Not when the ISO is twice as large for the same effective image.

What you’re saying would be correct if you crop an APS-C-sized portion of the FF image, but that’s not what we’re discussing.

It's not what I'm discussing either.

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Erik

Edited 4 months ago by Erik Magnuson
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