The one thing speaking for 35mm is the availablity of specialised lenses such as TS - actually in particular TS. APS-C scores in portability, journalistic work, video making, speed, cost (ie more flexibility/ bang for buck), and can do everything except ultra high res.īut when you really want ultra high res quality you may aswell have a Medium Format which simply is magic in depth of colours and shaping of subjects. Lens sizes have become a joke and so is the cost of your kit. So in reality 35 mm is the jack of all trades but doesn’t do anything perfectly. However if you really are after high resolution details - in say, Studio based Fashion shoot or Fineart Landscapes or Architecture/ Interiors you may as well go Medium Format. I can print at 2 meters in amazing quality and no issue on a Fuji XT3.

Have you shot the same image in the same condition? I did that test and was surprised.

That is not to say you don’t but there’s potentially confirmation bias you have to get over. I moved over from Nikon because precisely there is no difference if you know what you are doing. Hmm not sure - these days in Commercial work between 35mm and APS-C, APS-C is king. Going forward, I am going to put together a comprehensive and in-depth sensor size review, going from the smallest I can find through to the largest I can get my hands on, as I think a lot of the benefits of a full frame sensor are not as great as in the past, and for those who want it, the price jump to used medium format is far more viable than ever before.Ĭan you tell the difference between the two sensors? I don't think that the difference is that great considering the price jump.

In this comparison video, I compare a Canon APS-C size sensor to a full frame offering. This has also made the price of a used medium format camera become far cheaper and almost identical to a pro full frame DSLR, which creates the questio:, if you want to move up from an APS-C size sensor and you don't shoot action, would jumping up to medium format be the answer? The resolution, low light performance, build quality, and autofocus have been dramatically improved in cameras that have smaller sensors than the 35mm full frame the same can also be said for cameras with larger sensors. Since the mid naughties, full frame digital cameras have reigned over their crop sensor counterparts for most genres of photography.

Diff between full frame and crop sensor