“Nikon DX camera vs. cropping or putting a teleconverter on a full frame body” is a new article by Steve Perry (website | YouTube | Facebook). You can check also his previous [NR] posts here:
Have you ever attempted to bag a prize wildlife photo only to discover that you needed a little more “reach” than what the lens hanging off the front of your camera was delivering? As a wildlife shooter, I tend to get into head-on collisions with that scenario on a regular basis – especially with my full frame bodies.
Well, along about the time the D300 and D3 came out, I began experimenting with and comparing crop bodies to full frame bodies (with and without TCs). And along the way, I realized that sometimes the right photographic tool for the job might not be what you had previously thought.
With the introduction of the D500, questions of when to use a crop camera or when to use a full frame camera have become as common as mosquitoes in a tent. Each day, my inbox sees a variety of crop vs. full frame camera conundrums, and it usually boils down to one of the two questions below.
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