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Originally Posted by Spoolio
Pardon my cluelessness, but what is the noticeable effect of not having a full-frame CCD sensor? I know enthusiast-level camera's such as the Canon Eos 450D and Nikon D300 (which I am very interested in) don't have a full-frame sensor, and so suffer from "digital crop", but have not seen an idiot's reference to what that would actually mean to me.
Basically, I want to take photo's of R/C cars in action and also dogs (beloved shows Beagles and likes to see piccies of herself) so would this full-frame thing matter?
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I think in practical terms to most folks, none at all, other than you wallet will still have best part of a grand left in it which it wouldn't if you bought a full frame. The biggest difference is that it used to be harder to get true wide angle on cropped sensors, as any focal length was effectively multiplied by 1.5 or so. Of course, you benefit from the same effect by telephotos effectively being longer as well. Nowadays you can get lenses in the 10-20 zoom range and full 180 degree fisheyes for cropped sensor, so it's not really as big a deal anymore.
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