Comments on: Canon 1D Mark 4 Coming Soon?

By: Ken Burg

Ken Burg — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:29:45 +0000

You’re right, a crop factor is just that and not a magically increased focal length. I guess what I’m saying is comparing the D300s with a cropped D3s, you have 12.3mp vs 5.1mp. You sacrifice the greater sensitivity, but you will get higher resolution in your cropped sensor camera.

By: Matt Radlinski

Matt Radlinski — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:25:07 +0000

Depends on how many megapixels the sensors is. Generally, cropped sensor cameras have fewer megapixels. There isn’t much difference between using a cropped sensor or taking a high MP full frame sensor and cropping the image. A 1.3 crop doesn’t magically make your lens .3 times longer.

By: Ken Burg

Ken Burg — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:10:53 +0000

Well, same field of view cropping your full frame image but not the same resolution.

By: Matt Radlinski

Matt Radlinski — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:03:32 +0000

Well, the cropped frame doesn’t actually give you any extra “reach”… it’s just a crop. You could get the same effect cropping your full frame image.

By: David Drufke

David Drufke — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:47:14 +0000

Nikon didn’t, they have the D300S, and now with the 7D, Canon has something to compete with that. We shoot Nikon and have two full frame and one crop frame camera, because many times the extra reach of a crop body comes in handy.