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Why choose a cropped sensor

Why choose a cropped sensor

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Why choose a cropped sensor

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Richard: So Rob, I know you're one of the early shooters, you had a Canon 5D Mark II full frame sensor, then you picked up a 7D, crop sensor. I'm shooting on crop sensor, why would someone choose a crop frame sensor? Robbie: It's a great question and the one that we know we get all the time there is a couple of reasons that I would sort of suggest people shoot on crop frame sensor. First, crop frame sensors are generally in cheaper cameras, right? They are not going to be quite as expensive. That's a general thumb, not always the case but generally you can save a couple of bucks by going with the crop image sensor. The next thing that I particularly love is that because we have a multiplication value on a crop image sensor, so on this 7D it's 1.6 on your Nikon there it's 1.5, we actually get more length on telephotos side of things. What I mean by that is it say I put a 200 millimeters, it's not actually 200 millimeters, it's 200 millimeters times 1.6. So if I'm in a situation where I…

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