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Buy now a 760D or wait for the upcoming model?

Started Jan 6, 2016 | Discussions thread
whakapu Senior Member • Posts: 1,051
Re: Buy now a 760D or wait for the upcoming model?

the crop factor argument is not entirely bogus. Yes you can crop an area corresponding to the smaller sensor formats but it will usually contain a lot fewer pixels. Tony Northrup has a video comparing BIF shots from a 5DIII (I think) and a 7D and it's a no-contest. filling the frame on the 7D was far better than an 8.6MP crop from the 5D. Likewise I found I could always get far more detail from my SX50 at 1200 focal length than from cropping from 60D shots at 430 equiv (which surprised me). Conversely, with a 5DS cropped to APS you've still got about a 20MP sensor embedded within the full frame and the about a 13-14MP M43. The bigger pixels are more sensitive, but not to the extent that it doesn't matter than there's only a fraction as many of them.

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