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Veato's explanation rules. I'll just add that the 6D appears to be basically a full frame 60D with worse AF and a price that isn't much more than a 5D2, and is utterly shash IMO. If you want/need full frame either get the excellent Nikon D600 (basically a full frame D7000 with slightly improved AF) or stretch to a 5D.

If you don't care about full frame, you're not invested in a system and you don't need 8fps, the Nikon D7000 is the best camera out there for just about everything, with the Pentax K5 (II) running a very, very close second.


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TBH I've felt the same. I understand full frame means larger sensors and hence greater sensitivity and something called "pop" but surely the aspect would mean you'd need to edit each pic before you could print on 6"x4" photopaper?

What happens is that full frame sensor cameras have the lens mounted at the same distance from the sensor as film in a 35mm camera would be. So your focal length in both types of camera would yield the same result.

In the APS-C cameras, the sensor is closer to the lens. What this does is cause the focal length to be multiplied by a certain amount, with the picture from the lens being cropped. In essence, these cameras give you an extra bit of zoom, so your 200mm lens focal length would be multiplied by around 1.3 giving you a lens with an apparent focal length of around 260mm.

Many factors can affect the appearance of the camera. You a more likely to get images that "pop" if you buy cameras further up the hierarchy, as well as buying lenses with all glass components instead of a mixture of bass and plastic.

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paulzolo wrote:

In the APS-C cameras, the sensor is closer to the lens.


Really? Where did you find this information?

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belchingmatt wrote:
paulzolo wrote:

In the APS-C cameras, the sensor is closer to the lens.


Really? Where did you find this information?


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Cameras supporting EF-S, however, have more clearance, allowing lens elements to be closer to the sensor than in the EF mount. Only Canon cameras with the APS-C sized sensor released after 2003 support the EF-S mount.


More on Canon's EF-S here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF-S

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