#MICRO FOUR THIRDS SENSOR VS APS C ISO#
#MICRO FOUR THIRDS SENSOR VS APS C PROFESSIONAL#

My camera system without the tripod weighed close to 10 pounds. Lately, I have been carrying the smaller Sony a6500 with the 10-18mm F4 OSS and Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS lenses and have cut the weight in half.įast forward 10-plus years, and full-frame is still the primary choice of most professionals like myself. This image of Dusy Basin, Kings Canyon National Park, California, is from the very last time I carried a heavy full-frame kit on a long backcountry adventure.

At the time, switching to full-frame sensor size was a game changer that gave us an edge over shooting smaller sensors. Like many others shooting at the time, when I got my first full-frame camera (a Nikon D3 in my case), it blew me away with its ability to produce quality images at high ISOs in light I had never previously even bothered to shoot in.

#MICRO FOUR THIRDS SENSOR VS APS C ISO#

In the early days of digital, most of us were shooting cameras from Canon or Nikon that had cropped APS-C sensors, which were very limited in terms of dynamic range and high ISO ability.

#MICRO FOUR THIRDS SENSOR VS APS C PROFESSIONAL#

Is it portability, lens options, absolute image quality, price? For the last 10 years or so, the go-to sensor format for most serious and professional photographers has been full-frame, which closely resembles the size of the 35mm film many of us had been shooting prior to switching to digital. With so many great options in different formats now, the real key as an artist is to weigh your options and decide what attributes are the most important to you.

Who wants to carry a large-format view camera anywhere beyond the parking lot? A Camera Is More Than Just Sensor Size Following that logic, we should all be shooting 8×10 digital cameras or even larger in order to gain the absolute highest quality image. One can go down the rabbit hole of image quality to crazy extremes, but in reality this quest comes with its own issues beyond just the cost of such a camera. The common wisdom is that for each jump in sensor size, you gain about a stop of performance in terms of noise and dynamic range. Right off the bat, let’s clear things up by saying yes, all things being equal, a larger sensor will give you a better image file, but like most matters in life, all things are not equal. The scene was very high contrast, so I bracketed for HDR, lessening in this case the dynamic range advantage of full-frame. Currently, none of the smaller-sensor systems offers perspective control lenses lens selection remains a key advantage of full-frame systems. One of the advantages of full-frame when shooting this scene in the Sierras was the ability to use a tilt/shift lens to control the depth of field.

Micro four thirds sensor vs aps c