APSC vs Full Frame? Image quality differences?

Draek wrote:

I believe the differences are purely due to differences in skill, partly in shooting, and partly in processing; seems to me the key difference between you both is his masterful use of contrast, how he gets all of the scene's tonalities into the image, with subtlety and taste instead of the garish and distorted output of automated HDR programs---you on the other hand seem to focus too much on the midtones when determining exposure, sometimes letting highlights blow in that unpleasant way characteristic of digital and doing little to fix it. Compare your photo of the road beneath the trees with your own photos of the fisherman's wharf to see what I'm talking about, the smooth highlight rolloff in the latter give it a much more pleasing look than the blown grass on the former.

Unfortunately no, I don't know of any landscape photographer who shoots with Alpha cameras---Michael Reichmann of L-L fame used to shoot with an A900, but I believe he's switched since---but there's many who've put the Canon 5D Mark II to great use, a camera which according to DxO has the same bit depth and almost 1.5 EV disadvantage in DR relative to your A580. Much less noise in high-ISO of course, owing to its large, full-frame sensor, but then I doubt you're shooting your landscapes at ISO3200.

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