Curtis & Jordin Wiklund, A Husband and Wife Photography Team in Birmingham, Michigan, specializing in weddings, high school senior pictures, family portraits, and lifestyle photography.
Let’s take a break from our photography and my media projects to have a TECH TALK! I’ve been wondering whether a full-frame sensor camera would really make that big of a difference in our photography. So I rented a 5d mark II to compare to our 7D and other crop-sensor cameras. Hopefully this will help […]
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Life with Kaishon - Interesting : )
I don’t ever want a full frame camera. I am happy with what I have : )
Stacey Sargert Zahn - I have a 7D. Loved my 50mm 1.8 but felt too tight at times so I upgraded to a 35mm 1.4 L. LOVE! Got lucky and found a brand new Mark ii that someone would trade for lessons for their Miii. Really want a Miii but a deal I just can’t pass up.
Comparing the two speed hasn’t been an issue. Used the Mii for sports once but the reason I went back to the 7D was for the extra reach it gave me with my 70-200. Main issue: I TERRIBLY miss the 19 point focus of my 7d. The Mii’s 9 point seems so old school! Very hard to quickly get the spot focus to the diagonal points, very annoying! I also really miss the pop up flash. I don’t own a big flash because I love wide open apertures with natural light. But when I’m being lazy and want a quick shot while out with friends or at my kiddos school and hate not having access to a flash!
I have never bought into the full frame vs. cropped issue that you can’t get the same look by using a different size lens. I would just compensate… bought a 35mm for my 7D instead of a 50mm, etc. I actually like always having extra length on the long end so I actually seem to prefer cropped.
Having said that what I do already see a difference in during the past few weeks of shooting with both is image quality is better on the Mii. And it seems to be so much easier to get it right SOOC with the Mii vs the 7d! Don’t now if I’ve just got lucky but lighting, coloring, skin tone…. all seem like a piece of cake with the Mii.
Stacey Sargert Zahn - Steve Bedford, I bought my 35mm L straight from Canon, refurbished. It was like brand new! LOVE LOVE LOVE!
Anonymous - so point is FF just looks better unless you match the aperture and focal length then they look exactly the same. Lets replace the words FF in your post with medium format and the words “crop sensor” with FF and your post will be future proof…till 2020. Kind of pointless don’t you think? But I get it, apple is better than oranges because you spent more on an apple.
Tim Bronson - Hey Curtis I have a question about the colors in both of the hands pictures. I can’t seem to figure out how you get the color to look like that. Are you taken the RAW image and applying a filter in lightroom or something? The colors are just so flattering and detailed and I like to know how I can get these colors in my images. I shoot with a Nikon D7000. I don’t know if that part matters
David Hoffman - I completely agree! This is the first article I’ve seen that articulates this fact. Nothing compares to full frame :)
Curtis Wiklund Photography - If you match the aperture and focal length, they DO NOT look exactly the same (second to last paragraph). And yes, you are exactly right, this is the same comparison as between full frame and medium format. I shoot a Contax 645 and love medium format for pretty smeary color, but prefer cheap 35mm for black and white to get the gritty black and white look that I like. Keep experimenting and you’ll find what you like regardless of what other people do or whether it’s cheap or expensive. Just try different formats out and go with your gut, experimenting is never pointless!