Personally (again just my personal feelings here), the extra sensor sizes doesn’t give me anything that I find worth the added price. Pentax has pretty much always had 100% viewfinders, so I’ve never had to worry about that issue, Additionally I still shoot a lot of film, and a lot of that 6x7 or 4x5. Heck my smallest film cameras are 35mm. So a “full frame” digital sensor to really doesn’t give me anything I don’t already have, and with the current prices for very large chunk of extra change. For anything slow moving (or still) medium and large format film, scanned at ridiculous resolutions are still the way to go IMO. I do understand that I am in the minority on that opinion these days. And while I’m being a ludite, nothing beats a large format chrome!
Okay back to digital. For my actual paying work (it’s a side business, not my livelihood), I use an APSC and have never been “under equipped,” but I do specialize in the glass I use and carry to meet my particular needs. I’ve never needed “more sensor” to get the images I’m after. As the VAST majority of my paying work is for prints the major limiting factor for me is MP versus print size. A full frame would give me a boost here, but for the price it’s just flat out cheaper to go to a denser APSC sensor. Maybe in 5 years it will make sense to go full frame cost wise.
If you like the idea of full frame, certainly go for it. It’ll leave more vintage medium format camera’s out there for me to get on Ebay for cheap
You’re not wrong, an EOS 80D ist gonna be much cheaper and a huge improvement over the 50D but I already have a crop sensor in the 50D and since I definitely need a new body for low light and landscape a full frame camera would make more sense.
We have a photo of my first flight in 1963/64. My mother holding me just outside the door of a Delta jet (DC-8 it think). These were in pre-airbridge days so it was taken at the top of the stairs truck. A nice sunny day. Moms smiling…I have no idea whats going on.
Your pic is and will continue to be priceless for your whole family. Congratulations! A great moment.
Hey @Derbysieger. Did you postprocess to get the trees to print parallel or does that just happen naturally these days? (I haven’t touched a real camera in a couple of years.)
I didn’t do any significant postprocessing. Just the standard, adjusting sharpness, a little bit of colour correction and that’s it. It’s just a snapshot so it’s not worth putting much time into it.
I didn’t tilt the camera much and with the 24-105mm IS L II USM there’s not a lot of barrel distortion on an APS-C sensor at 24mm
You obviously didn’t fl directly over the Hampton Yacht Club. We were supposed to have T-storms so I went to work on my boat. Its cooler in the cabin without the sun beating down of the roof and the rain also helps. No such luck. Sunny the entire time! T-Storms off in the distance all around…but not over my fiberglas oven!
I didn’t know I could sweat that much…that last was probably TMI…my bad.
She’s a Texan, so seeing the forests and mountains was jaw dropping for her.
Back in May, we traveled from OK to the Blackhills in SD. My son did a year of college there. We toured all around there also and she was floored. This trip, really opened her eyes to the beauty of the land.
