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01-07-2012, 06:47 PM   #16
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QuoteOriginally posted by mika. Quote
The "look" is a compression in focus/defocus. It is an image in which you can see several distinct elements or areas of focus/defocus.
Is this something that came to you while eating some ergot-infested bread, or are you referencing something you can link to? (Beyond unappealing, unoriginal scanned shots that is.)

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QuoteOriginally posted by mika. Quote
JinDesu, jsherman999, RioRico, I'd like you to refrain from participating in this thread. You obviously don't get it, and your sarcasm is not appreciated. Please go away.
Actually, I think I'll stick around to see if the moderators end up banning you from your own thread! (which has gotta be a pentaxforum first.) (getting popcorn)
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I'd be tempted to continue being a troll further, as I am a young person person on the internets, but I guess I will leave with this parting statement:

When you make the statement, "either you get it or you are terrible" on a forum with people who have varying interests, skill, and equipment/techniques, then you should expect far worse than what I have done. I have seen no scientific or truly descriptive explanation from you with regards to what you are talking about that makes Full Frame better than APS-C. There are other reasons for Full Frame being better than APS-C. Medium Format is better than Full Frame. It's a cost difference that keeps each apart (mostly anyways).
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Is this something that came to you while eating some ergot-infested bread, or are you referencing something you can link to? (Beyond unappealing, unoriginal scanned shots that is.)
You know if said something even close to this to someone not on the internet you'd have your head knocked off with a baseball bat.

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Actually, I think I'll stick around to see if the moderators end up banning you from your own thread! (which has gotta be a pentaxforum first.) (getting popcorn)
Get a life!
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QuoteOriginally posted by mika. Quote
JinDesu, jsherman999, RioRico, I'd like you to refrain from participating in this thread. You obviously don't get it, and your sarcasm is not appreciated. Please go away.
When you spew nonsense, you can expect to be called on it, by people who actually have some knowledge of photography.

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Actually, I think I'll stick around to see if the moderators end up banning you from your own thread! (which has gotta be a pentaxforum first.) (getting popcorn)
Roger that.
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It's a cost difference that keeps each apart (mostly anyways).
I don't buy that marketing propaganda. The cost to produce the bigger sensor should actually be lower than the cost to produce the smaller sensor. The smaller sensor has greater miniaturization than the larger sensor.

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This must be the weirdest thread that I have read in a long time. I am not really sure why mika is so upset about.

As to the compression theory, I figured it had to do with the focal length rather than the format itself. As the format gets smaller, shorter focal length will be used to achieve the same FOV. Since the actual focal length is shorter, the picture will look different. I guess this is what you mean by compression which in itself is not a theory I think.
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QuoteOriginally posted by mika. Quote
JinDesu, jsherman999, RioRico, I'd like you to refrain from participating in this thread. You obviously don't get it, and your sarcasm is not appreciated. Please go away.

HAHAHAHA!!!

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QuoteOriginally posted by mika. Quote
The "look" is a compression in focus/defocus. It is an image in which you can see several distinct elements or areas of focus/defocus.
I don't know what you mean by the word "compression" here. What is "compressed"? The compression of space is different with different focal lengths (longer = more compressed) -- is that what you're talking about? The fact that you'd tend to use longer lenses with FF?

But we've established than an APS-C photo is just a cropped FF photo, RIGHT? (If some object is 25ft away and I shoot it with on a FF camera at a certain aperture, and then I put that same lens on an APS-C camera and shoot again from the same position with the same aperture, you agree that object will look just the same, right, assuming the object fits into the frame onto both?)

So therefore, in your view, a FF photo that has been cropped to this extent (which of we used to do all the time in the darkroom) can not possibly have the "look", RIGHT? So, in the example below, what's in the red box has the possibility to be "not snapshot" but what's in the blue box can only aspire to be "snapshot", at best? (If you don't like the mountain, substitute anything else.) Because it is cropped? If I took one of your examples above and cropped it, it would instantly lose the look and become snapshot? Is that really what you are saying?

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QuoteOriginally posted by mika. Quote
I don't buy that marketing propaganda. The cost to produce the bigger sensor should actually be lower than the cost to produce the smaller sensor. The smaller sensor has greater miniaturization than the larger sensor.

It's actually very simple math. You get fewer chips when the chip size is larger, than when the chip is smaller.

24x36 is larger than 18x24. 1.5 times to be exact. So, you get 50% more APS-C chips on a silicon wafer than you get with FF.
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I don't buy that marketing propaganda. The cost to produce the bigger sensor should actually be lower than the cost to produce the smaller sensor. The smaller sensor has greater miniaturization than the larger sensor.
That wouldn't be the larger sensor that I would want. I would want the same level of miniaturization, only a bigger area.
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The cost to produce the bigger sensor should actually be lower than the cost to produce the smaller sensor.
Exactly - just like the cost to produce a 747 is less than the cost to produce a Cessna, and why point-and-shoots cost more to produce than DSLRs!
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At the risk of getting into this maybe what the OP is not articulating (possible do to his not understand it) is the relationship of DOF, viewing angle (lens perspective) and perspective distortion.


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But we've established than an APS-C photo is just a cropped FF photo, RIGHT?
Exactly. Because it is cropped you don't get the full range of defocus ranges in any given image. With APS-C, because of the 1.5x decompression, you only get a fraction of the defocus ranges that you would normally get with FF. Is that making sense to you?

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