G2 Lover 寫:
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Also FF is FF, a 1.6x really SUCKS! (in matter of handy 1.6x maybe good but not as handy as DCAM, Prosumer or 4/3.
ALSO the TELE is meaningless, cropping a ff always can produce the same picture as in 1.6x.
If someone taking RAW, I don't see the 50D can really outbeat 5D very much in terms of picture quality.
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I guess you misunderstood digital and what it is then ... No, you cannot made the same image by cropping. the 50D give you a 15MP densely packed data. Cropping even from a 21MP 1Ds-III would give you far less, an a 5D would give you even less. Thus while you can get the coverage, you cannot get the data density and needed datum to work onto. It might not be a problem for some who all but just view their image on screen or just web post / email. But if one need the image to print in any decent size, that is something that the lack of data simply would not be sufficient.
Shooting RAW or not shooting RAW do not take away this fact. And a 50D RAW are having better data than a 5D pixel per pixel and inherently also better pixel ( noise to signal ratio , Saturation Signal level ). FF do not mean the data is automatically better, and especially not after the fact that 5D is 3 years old when 50D is current. Signaling and the technology involved had advanced quite a lot since then.
One had to also consider how those old lens perform on a FF vs on an APS-C sensor. I shoot FF since way back, and even with then old 1Ds MK-I ( only 11 MP and very big pixel ) which is very tolerant on lens as far as FF goes. The C/Y lens ( almost all of them ) had shown some form of discripency as discerned from the capture. It simply reflect the way these old lens are designed and how that are not quite digital friendly. Where a cropped capture, of course need not worrying too much about that
And as far as camera as status and how people look at it ... to be fair, many other so call classic camera are even far worse, and no one camera is good investment. If one is so entrenched in that aspect, they should not take a better view about the hobby and equipment. Camera and lens are investment for the hobby, not for their financial return. And if one is so hype about how others look at you if you are not using the latest and greatest, then its what I consider a ego problem, not the camera's , but the photographers'.