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The impact of a crop factor

The impact of a crop factor

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The impact of a crop factor

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- The crop factor of your camera is the amount that the camera crops the image that's seen inside the viewfinder. Now, with a full frame camera there's essentially no image detail lost. In this case, I have a full frame camera here from Sony, so it's pretty straightforward. What happens here is what the lens is seeing transferring to the sensor and the type of shooting here means that all the detail seen by the lens is captured by the sensor. However, I can actually go into this particular camera and change this. I'm going to enable an APS-C mode here and actually switch this over and you'll notice that it changes the effective composition. We haven't zoomed or done anything here but as we take these shots, you'll notice that it's framed very differently. Let me switch that back and I switch to the full frame sensor and you see what's happening. Now in this case, that APS-C sensor is acting like a 1.6 crop. Other…

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