If you’re shopping for a digital camera, sensor size is one of the first things you’ll hear about. Chances are you’ve seen terms like “crop sensor,” “full frame,” and “micro four ...

Where are all the new high-end crop-sensor DSLRs? Canon rolled out a string of full-frame DSLRs from $2,000 to $7,000 in the past year, along with sub-$1,000 consumer crop-sensor cameras. But its ...

CROP FACTOR Describes how much an imaging sensor has been cropped in relation to its full-frame equivalent. It always describes how many times larger the full-frame is in relation to the cropped ...

Canon has announced a new flagship DSLR, the EOS-1D X. The camera is supposed to take the place of the fast-shooting crop-sensor 1D Mk IV and the multi-megapixel full-frame 1DS Mk III. The main draw ...

Still, if you plan to go for a crop-sensor camera before full-frame, it could pay off to buy full-frame lenses instead of dedicated crop-sensor ones, in order to future proof your purchases.

Common sensor formats Among consumer cameras, crop factor is always in reference to “full frame,” a sensor size equal to a frame of 35-millimeter film.

Chances are that if you are getting into shooting wildlife, you have weighed a full-frame setup with a teleconverter versus a crop sensor camera.

Is the implication that if you take the full-frame, you'll then have to bring another longer-than-200mm lens? If it's merely a choice between the 6D/16-35/70-200 vs 60D/16-35/70-200, by all means ...

For most of the past twenty years the common digital camera sensor sizes were 1/2.3-inch, one-inch, APS-C and full-frame, with a further alternative in Four Thirds favoured only by Olympus and ...