Super Members Mattias Burling Posted July 17, 2016 Author Super Members Share Posted July 17, 2016 Yes but with an equivalent lens the A7 is bigger than a Nikon D750. frontfocus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikkor Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 29 minutes ago, Mattias Burling said: Yes but with an equivalent lens the A7 is bigger than a Nikon D750. Maybe slightly smaller, but not really balanced (looking at the 28-70 2.8 for example). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraguth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 42 minutes ago, Nikkor said: Maybe slightly smaller, but not really balanced (looking at the 28-70 2.8 for example). 1 hour ago, Mattias Burling said: Yes but with an equivalent lens the A7 is bigger than a Nikon D750. But not with an equivalent lens from fuji. An equivalente a7rii with a sony/zeiss 55mm f1.8 would be a 35mm f1.2 on a Fuji (so you could get around the same dof and iso performance to compensate for the larger sensor from Sony). Well, this lens does not exist. Only the fuji 35mm 1.4, which is about the same size of the 55mm 1.8. But I agree that the 28-70 2.8 is insane. I do not understand why sony went this route. They should have invested in lenses like the 55mm f1.8 and 35mm f2.8. They are optically outstanding, fast enough and relatively small. Well, the 28mm f2 was a good addition though. Together with the loxias, specially the 21mm 2.8, they are hard to beat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members Mattias Burling Posted July 17, 2016 Author Super Members Share Posted July 17, 2016 Depth of field doesn't change with sensor size, nor does lowlight. You only recalculate the focal length so the person you talk to will understand the distance he/she needs to fill a frame. A crop is a crop, nothing else. Any who.... frontfocus and kidzrevil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viet Bach Bui Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Nice cherry picking You should redo that with Nikon's own 24-70 f2.8 (http://j.mp/29NNDmG). That Sigma is a) a third party lens and b) not in the same league as the Sony GM or the Nikon Nano. If you had mentioned Canon then I would have agreed because the Canon 24-70 f2.8 is compact and the whole package is shorter. veraguth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraguth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Mattias Burling said: Depth of field doesn't change with sensor size, nor does lowlight. You only recalculate the focal length so the person you talk to will understand the distance he/she needs to fill a frame. A crop is a crop, nothing else. Any who.... In addition to the cherry pecking regarding the lenses you chose as pointed out by another member, you are wrong about the practical effects of image sensor size on lowlight and dof. If you get same generation sensors with the same megapixel count, the FF sensor will perform better in lowlight than an aps sensor owing to its larger photo sensors. That is the reason why historically full frame cameras perform better in low-light than aps ones and a camera like a7sII perform better than an a7rII. As to the dof issue, if you want to shoot the same composition (a headshot for example) with the same lens (a 50mm) with the same aperture using both a full frame camera and an aps one, you will need go further back and be more distant from your subject with the aps camera. Therefore, you will need to focus closer to infinity. By doing that, you get a deeper dof. Another opition would be to use a wider lens (a 35mm for example) and keep the same distance, however a wider lens has a deeper dof when focused on the same distance. That is the reason why I said you would need a faster lens to compensate for going from a full frame camera to an aps one and have the same options regarding low light and dof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikkor Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 He knows the equivalent thing, he just has fun dening it and having the same conversation over and over again. BrorSvensson and Ehetyz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members Mattias Burling Posted July 17, 2016 Author Super Members Share Posted July 17, 2016 Ok, if that's true, then a light meter has a setting for film/sensor size. But it doesn't. So no sensor size does not affect lowlight. If true, a printed magazine cover gets darker when you cut it with scissors. Depth of field stays the same. Exposure stays the same. Focal length stays the same. A crop is a crop is a crop is a crop. Take your camera and test/see for yourself. I'm out of the discussion because I know how religious people get over it. Its like talking evolution with the Pope. Science from me and magic from the opponent. kidzrevil, IronFilm and Marco Tecno 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikkor Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Lol you really enjoy your science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraguth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 5 minutes ago, Mattias Burling said: Ok, if that's true, then a light meter has a setting for film/sensor size. But it doesn't. So no sensor size does not affect lowlight. If true, a printed magazine cover gets darker when you cut it with scissors. Depth of field stays the same. Exposure stays the same. Focal length stays the same. A crop is a crop is a crop is a crop. Take your camera and test/see for yourself. I'm out of the discussion because I know how religious people get over it. Its like talking evolution with the Pope. Science from me and magic from the opponent. The one being religious or mystic here is you. Dof is a mathematical relation between focal length, focal distance and aperture. If you change the sensor size and want to keep the same composition you will have to change either the focal length and the focal distance. Therefore, you will have to change the aperture to compensate for that if you want to maintain the same dof. A light meter does not have a sensor size because a light meter is not concerned with the noise quality of your picture but only with the amount of light to get your exposure right. A full frame camera and a aps-c can shoot the same scene at f1.8 iso6400, both of them will be equally well exposed. But it does not mean the photos will have the same quality. To get the same quality (regarding low-light noise) you will probably have to shoot the aps camera at 1.2 iso 3200. Thus, you compensate for the worse low-light performance. That is it: when you cut a magazine with sizors you don't get the same composition. That is a very good example indeed. Everything stays the same (dof, focal length, focal distance, aperture) except the composition. Now, instead of having a headshot, you have the shot of a nose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikkor Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Save your energy, this has been tried several times veraguth. kidzrevil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraguth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 11 minutes ago, Nikkor said: Save your energy, this has been tried several times veraguth. Thanks for letting me know it is an old issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidzrevil Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 2 hours ago, veraguth said: In addition to the cherry pecking regarding the lenses you chose as pointed out by another member, you are wrong about the practical effects of image sensor size on lowlight and dof. If you get same generation sensors with the same megapixel count, the FF sensor will perform better in lowlight than an aps sensor owing to its larger photo sensors. That is the reason why historically full frame cameras perform better in low-light than aps ones and a camera like a7sII perform better than an a7rII. False. There are way more factors than that which dictate the quality of the image output. Sensor size in this day & age aint one of em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Tecno Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Mattias Burling said: Ok, if that's true, then a light meter has a setting for film/sensor size. But it doesn't. So no sensor size does not affect lowlight. If true, a printed magazine cover gets darker when you cut it with scissors. Depth of field stays the same. Exposure stays the same. Focal length stays the same. A crop is a crop is a crop is a crop. Take your camera and test/see for yourself. I'm out of the discussion because I know how religious people get over it. Its like talking evolution with the Pope. Science from me and magic from the opponent. I really liked the magazine metaphor. And I totally agree with your words, provided the two different sensor sizes have the same pixel density (and pixel size, consequently). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraguth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 25 minutes ago, kidzrevil said: False. There are way more factors than that which dictate the quality of the image output. Sensor size in this day & age aint one of em Great. Thus, let me know which aps-c camera performs better in low-light than a full frame camera being both from the same manufacturer and same technological generation. I would love to hear. Of course, there are more factors involved, such as IBS for example, that is the reason why I was talking about same generation sensors. However, all factors being equal, the full frame sensor should perform better. The issue (and a good thing) is that nowadays cameras can shoot in such high isos that we are starting seeing a difference only in very low-light conditions, which one does not use very often. However, it does not mean that sensor size has no effect on low-light performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraguth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 18 minutes ago, Marco Tecno said: I really liked the magazine metaphor. And I totally agree with your words, provided the two different sensor sizes have the same pixel density (and pixel size, consequently). And you end up with a smaller image, which translates as a lower megapixel count... which is a form of performance compensation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantsin Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Here's a thought experiment: A Full Frame camera and an APS-C camera, both using a sensor from the same die, thus with the same dynamic range, same noise and same ISO per pixel. If this sensor had 12 megapixels in APS-C (24mm*16mm), it would have about 27 megapixels at full frame size (36mm*24mm, 225% the surface of APS-C). Now, light sensitivity in ISO would still be the same for both sensors/cameras, but: if you downsample the picture to video resolution, the full frame chip would yield about 50% less image noise, therefore about twice the usable ISO. [EDIT: If the full frame-camera line-skips instead of doing a full pixel readout and downsampling, then indeed, it will simple throw away the extra light/image information, and the bigger sensor size will yield no advantage in terms of image noise/usable ISO/light sensitivity.] It's the same when you would create same-size photographic prints from both pictures: The picture from the APS-C sensor would be noisier, and hence have less effectively usable light sensitivity/ISO. The experiment is even easier when both sensors have the same pixel count (let's say, both 12MP/4K). Then the pixels on the full frame camera would have a higher full-well capacity, thus more dynamic range and less noise, and hence a higher ISO than the APS-C sensor with the same pixel count. - One has to take into account that a bigger sensor captures more light/photons simply because of its bigger size. This is also true for lenses. A full frame f1.8 lens transmits twice the light that an APS-C f1.8 lens transmits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frontfocus Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 6 hours ago, veraguth said: It just make me like the A7sII/A7Rii, 4k in full frame Does the A7RII record full sensor readout yet? 4 hours ago, veraguth said: Only the fuji 35mm 1.4, which is about the same size of the 55mm 1.8. I don't know what exactly "same size" means to you... http://camerasize.com/compact/#679.408,624.395,ha,t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veraguth Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 22 minutes ago, frontfocus said: Does the A7RII record full sensor readout yet? I don't know what exactly "same size" means to you... http://camerasize.com/compact/#679.408,624.395,ha,t Who said the a7rii recorded 4k in a full sensor read out? I said both cameras record full frame 4k, which they do. Of course A7rii does not do a full pixel read out in full frame. But I prefer to have it on my camera rather than no full frame at all. I have one, I find it very useful for close ups, when I am in tight spaces and when I want to shoot photos in order to take advantage of the 42mp. OK. According to the specs, it is 2cm shorter. Mentally I thought it would not make much diference, that is the reason I said "about the same size", thanks for taking the "about" out. However, the image you showed says otherwise. The 35mm 1.4 feels much smaller. But I still think that one would need a fuji 35mm f1.2 to make a proper comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladimir Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 omg those discussion still going on... DOF is a simple a length of a space that is in focus. Which doesn't change with single lens, constant aperture and distance from object. But when were talking about practical application and visual perception FOV/DOF ratio is much more important. So much more important that were replacing that ratio with single term "DOF". And i believe everyone in this thread is understand that. Just give to Mattias his medal of "definitions guardian" and please stop that annoying subject. And of course size of sensor by itself doesnt affect its low light possibilities. Size of photosensitive element does. Which is easier to achieve with bigger size of sensor. Just give to Mattias his second medal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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