Like the format. Lots of fun. Thanks!
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While I “get” where the idea of full frame came from - it’s not particularly helpful. Funny how we went from 24x36mm being “miniature” to it being some kind of Holy Grail. What is really bass-ackwards in my view is talking about crop factor in comparing lenses. How the heck did we wind up with such a convoluted way to make comparisons - based upon an arbitrary base starting point of “miniature” film stock? How about angle of view as the basis of comparison? This way of comparing lenses is both more meaningful (in terms of what the lens sees and will capture) and is sensor/film format agnostic. Most folk learning photography today have never used film, and they’ve never used 35mm as their “starting point” in thinking about cameras. Why not teach/explain from the get-go about angle of view and aperture maximum comparisons? When you talk crop factor, you still end up having to teach about angle of view anyway, so skip the irrelevant step.
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Illustrative conversations:
“Nice photo!”
“Thanks...”
“Is that a crop, or is that full frame?”
“Uh... do you mean did I use a sensor other than 24x36mm? Or do you mean did I use less of the image than my sensor originally captured in my editing?”
——
“Nice camera!”
“Thanks . . . “
“Is that full frame?”
“So far it seems to capture everything I see through the viewfinder.”
“No, stupid, I mean is the sensor 24x36mm in size, or have they cropped it?”
“No, I think they made it this way on purpose. The sensor is the size it was originally designed to be - as far as I can tell.”
“Man, you’re really dense . . . If it isn’t 24x36mm is has been cropped!”
“Well, it’s 44x33mm so I guess they must have cropped larger?”
“You’re so stupid I don’t even want to talk to you anymore . . . “
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“Great photo!”
‘Thanks...”
“What lens did you shoot that with?”
“90mm”
“Are you sure? It looks like you shot it with a wide angle, not a short telephoto!”
“I’m pretty sure what lens I used...”
“I’m a very advanced full frame user, and I’m pretty sure that was a wide angle and not a short telephoto!”
“Right.”
“Right what?”
“It was shot with a 90mm wide angle.”
“You’re so stupid, I don’t even want to talk to you any more . . .”
Rand