full frame and cropped frame camera

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Are different lens be used with full frame camera and cropped frame camera?or we can use each lense in both of them?pl guide.

Easy answer is full frame len's work on both full frame and APSC . ( as long as you buy the right len's mount for your camera that is)

vinod joshi said:

sir

Are different lens be used with full frame camera and cropped frame camera?or we can use each lense in both of them?pl guide.

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"Full Frame" lens on APS Camera -

A 35mm ("full frame") format lens projects onto the sensor an image circle just large enough to cover a 35mm sensor. When you put a "full frame" lens on a smaller-format camera, the smaller sensor captures a smaller rectangle out of the image circle. So, a 50mm "full frame" lens on an APS camera will give you the same angle of coverage as a 75mm lens on a "full frame" camera. Think of it as a teleconverter effect.

APS Lens on "Full Frame" Camera -

OTOH, if you put an APS lens on a "full frame" camera, the smaller image circle it projects (designed for the smaller APS sensor) will not cover the entire 35mm sensor, so you'll end up with extreme vignetting around the edges. That said, some "full frame" cameras have a "crop mode", whereby the camera captures only a smaller portion of the sensor that IS covered by the APS-size image circle. For example, on Nikon's D800 you can mount an APS lens and capture the central 15MP out of the 36MP sensor.

vinod joshi said:

sir

Are different lens be used with full frame camera and cropped frame camera?or we can use each lense in both of them?pl guide.

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I'm assuming that to ask this question you will be shooting a cropped frame camera.

In which case any lens (of the correct mount obviously) will work on your camera.

vinod joshi said:

Are different lens be used with full frame camera and cropped frame camera? or we can use each lens in both of them? pl guide.

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Having addressed the obvious sensor coverage issue you need to make sure that the mounts are physically interchangeable.

• Most Nikon lenses are intechangeable (e.g. D7200/D750)
• Sony E-Mount are interchangeable (e.g. a6000/a7)

I don't know much about other brands, but I understand that you have to be careful with Canon mounts.

Then there's the question of whether it's a good idea or not. There's a few FX Nikon lenses that are worthwhile using on DX bodies, and there's a few FE Sony lenses that are useful on crop Sony. Quite often the focal lengths aren't suitable.

Usually, full-frame lenses are large and expensive, and some don't perform as well as you might expect when used on crop cameras.

If you have a particular lens/camera in mind, ask for clarification.

Two different questions:

1) Can same lens be used on both full frame and cropped? Yes

(EDIT: in line with what others have said, for nikon/pentax at least)

2) Should same lens be used on full frame and cropped? Questionable, as not many lenses are really suitable for both.

If you let us know why you are asking this question then our opinion as to whether you should be using a crop lens on a full frame, or vice versa, can be given. This might be more useful for you.

A full frame lens will work fine on both cropped and full frame cameras. But, for instance, a 35mm lens will act as a 56mm lens on a 1.6X crop camera.

The crop lenses will not work on a full frame camera.

If you plan to one day go full frame, buying the full frame lenses might save you some headaches--that's what I did. But full frame lenses are usually more expensive, larger and heavier.

What hotdog said.

EF-S & EF lenses work on Crop bodies. Only EF lenses work on FF bodies.

A 50mm lens on a FF body would be an equivalent of 80mm lens on a Crop.

You can use crop lenses on their new FF body either in crop mode or in FF mode. The degree of coverage varies for each lens design of course but Pentax at least offer you the choice.

I seem to remember that Nikon also allow crop lenses to be used in crop mode on some FF bodies but perhaps a Nikon user would know for sure.

steephill said:

You can use crop lenses on their new FF body either in crop mode or in FF mode. The degree of coverage varies for each lens design of course but Pentax at least offer you the choice.

I seem to remember that Nikon also allow crop lenses to be used in crop mode on some FF bodies but perhaps a Nikon user would know for sure.

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I do know that FF Sony has three options...

• Use a crop lens an suffer the vignetting
• Reduce the sensor area to emulate a crop camera.
• Automatically adjust according to the lens fitted.

Presumably Nikon has similar options. Fitting a crop lens to a FF body sounds like a bit of an emergency measure, but some lenses will just about cover the FF sensor, e.g. the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G (DX).

I think it's about time that we moved on from learned dissertations on crop factor.