Please tell me I am correct & the pro Is wrong???

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darkref
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Re: A world of mendacity
In reply to oklaphotog, 5 months ago

oklaphotog wrote:

miketuthill wrote:

Barrie Davis wrote:

miketuthill wrote:

However, if I take a shot of a bird with my 70-300 with both a Nikon D700 and a Nikon D300 from the same spot the bird in the D300 shot will be larger in the resulting image thus the apparent increase in focal length. I would have to crop the D700 shot to get the same apparent sized bird and would lose pixels in the process. So it's not as simple as it seems.

On the contrary. It is a simple as it seems.

The image is physically the same size on the sensors of both cameras. The sensor is just smaller in the APS camera, so a greater percentage of that sensor is filled. The image only gets larger when displayed because it is enlarged more.
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But, there are more pixels in the D300 bird. I would have to use a 450mm lens on the D700 to get a bird with as many pixels as the 300mm D300 shot. There's why one can look at the 300mm being equal to a full frame 450mm lens.

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Another note to that is perspective. Take a 300mm lens and put it on a FF camera and compose to get what you want. Take that same 300mm lens and put it on a crop body and the image will be too tight forcing you to move farther away from the subject to get the same framing. When you move further away from the subject the perspective gets more compressed giving the feeling as if the subject was more magnified.

Simply put, if you put a 450mm lens on a D700 and a 300mm lens on a D300, and shot the same subject from the same distance, the result would be equal FOV and Perspective and they would look identical, aside from the slightly shallower DOF on the D700 due to it using a longer focal length lens to achieve the same FOV.

I don't think this is correct. Also, focal length does not give you a shallower DOF (assuming the subject fills the same space in the frame). I think the full frame sensor would have the shallower DOF.

Actually I think what you said is true, apart from the DOF.

Edited 5 months ago by darkref
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