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9 years 7 months ago #403605 by Chewy
My Nikon D80 is about dead.  Well, let me say it's dead.  It was accidently dropped into a lake when loading up the boat.  So I'm shopping for a new camera and contemplating on sticking APC or going to full frame.  Actually I keep hearing about mirrorless, but not sure about that.  The new D810 looks good.  I have also seen some good deals on D700's and D800's. 

Any caveats you can think of about going full frame? 
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9 years 7 months ago #403616 by Don Fischer
Someone posted something about cleaning a camera on here where the camera really got plunged in water. Seem's after that it was dried out and moisture removed and the thing worked. If I was in the market for a new camera I'd get pretty much all I could afford. Count out the D4. Even if I could afford it, no way could I justify it. My best digital right now is a D5000, it's all I could afford when I got it! I wouldn't get all wired up over a full frame, APS can do far more than I'm capable of.
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9 years 7 months ago #403627 by KCook
Link to another thread that kicks around the FF option -

www.photographytalk.com/forum/photograph...on-camera-frame-size

Kelly Cook
Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
kellycook.zenfolio.com/
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9 years 7 months ago - 9 years 7 months ago #403638 by Stealthy Ninja
FF will give you all of your lens. It'll be wider, brighter/larger viewfinder (more light gets in, google the science if you want) and the DOF in shots will be generally thinner (good if you want to blur the background). Generally they're better in low light too, but that depends on the sensor tech used etc.

Bad things:
Edges of some lenses don't look great, so you'll see the bad corners (if the lens has them).
Less reach.
AF points often don't go out as far (to the edge of the viewfinder) as they do with crop cameras.
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9 years 7 months ago #403646 by Tony Imaging
That's a shame, well it sounds like you have some good tips here.  Go for it. 
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9 years 7 months ago #404003 by Joves
When my D300 gives up the fight, I plan on going with whatever FX body is below the pro level body. The reason being is that Nikon is now using a higher pixel count, so if you have any DX lenses when the body goes to DX mode, you are not going to take an image quality hit. Also you can put it in DX mode for the crop on long FX lenses if you choose to do so. But in reality with the increased pixels you can crop like crazy. Before when you had a say D700, and it was in DX mode the images were terrible IQ wise, that is because you were cropping a 12MP image, so why do it when the D300 was a cropped sensor at 12MP? I think in truth that DX will remain, but only as entry level to keep the price point lower. In reality as the MP resolutions improve for FX the need for cropped sensors fades. Also the manufacturers will keep it because DX is cheaper to produce. 
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9 years 7 months ago #404050 by Chewy
Big help guys, the gears are turning.  I'm tracking some used deals.  Crossing fingers for a good deal!
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9 years 7 months ago #404083 by TGonzo
Well that sucks.  At least there is a silver lining to this story, you get a new camera!  
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9 years 6 months ago #404254 by Randy Shaw

TGonzo wrote: Well that sucks.  At least there is a silver lining to this story, you get a new camera!  



Silver lining?  Did you see the OP avatar?  :lol:
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9 years 6 months ago #404259 by effron
Its not like you're changing genders, buy a D610 and get to photography!
Why so serious?
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