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Poll: How many photographers who make money are using Full Frame vs Crop Sensor camera?


12 years 2 months ago #202228 by Studio Queen
Random question, but I'm just curious how many actually are using a full frame vs crop sensor.
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12 years 2 months ago #202233 by Darrell
crop
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12 years 2 months ago #202234 by steveheap
Full frame - I think the reduced noise and ability to crop significantly and still have a usable image makes a difference

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12 years 2 months ago #202255 by Baydream
Define "make money". Are you talking about making a full living off photography, making a supplemental income, making an occasional couple hundred bucks, or making it to the "top 1%"?

I don't think you will ever get a "correct" answer to your question. Lots of people make decent money with crop cameras and some people make next to nothing with full-framers.

Again, the skill (and sometimes luck) of the photographer makes the difference.
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12 years 2 months ago #202259 by mj~shutterbugg

Baydream wrote: Define "make money". Are you talking about making a full living off photography, making a supplemental income, making an occasional couple hundred bucks, or making it to the "top 1%"?

I don't think you will ever get a "correct" answer to your question. Lots of people make decent money with crop cameras and some people make next to nothing with full-framers.

Again, the skill (and sometimes luck) of the photographer makes the difference.


I agree with John. Skill is huge and so is being in the right place at the right time and making your luck happen. I shoot full frame because like Steve mentioned cropping and getting a useable image is a must for me, yet I do not make tons of money- only a couple of hundred a year. But each year I get better and sell more so I just keep working and playing and trying new things. I have high hopes for lots of exposure this year, maybe not sales yet but I am making lots of head way in the networking department.
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12 years 2 months ago #202267 by Scotty
A large majority of pro's use both to be honest.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
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12 years 2 months ago #202285 by scifitographer
I use the Canon 5D Mk II which is full frame, but I shoot landscapes, the occasional portrait or event and used to shoot weddings. If I shot sports or wildlife I would have opted for the 7D which is cropped (which to be honest wasn't announced yet when I bought the 5D Mk II). So it's not so much whether you make money or consider yourself to be a pro so much as you purchase the equipment that suits your needs and gets the job done.
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12 years 2 months ago #202356 by Eddy
I can only afford one camera right now. So I'm on the crop side of the coin, but hope to get a full frame camera this year.
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12 years 2 months ago - 12 years 2 months ago #202375 by Stealthy Ninja

Studio Queen wrote: Random question


OK:

When can the drum hope for the alphabetical contempt?
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12 years 2 months ago #202376 by Stealthy Ninja

scifitographer wrote: I use the Canon 5D Mk II which is full frame, but I shoot landscapes, the occasional portrait or event and used to shoot weddings. If I shot sports or wildlife I would have opted for the 7D which is cropped (which to be honest wasn't announced yet when I bought the 5D Mk II). So it's not so much whether you make money or consider yourself to be a pro so much as you purchase the equipment that suits your needs and gets the job done.


yeh because the 5Dii sucks for action shots (I use to own one).

Now to answer the OP's question properly: Real pros use FF cameras. All the rest use Crop. Wanna buy my D7000? :whistle:

Seriously though, it depends on what they want it for.
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12 years 2 months ago #202420 by crystal
ummm well I make money anytime I sell a print. Can't wait until my solo gallery ends (this week) to see how much I have sold from there. I use crop.
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12 years 2 months ago #202421 by crystal

Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Now to answer the OP's question properly: Real pros use FF cameras. All the rest use Crop. Wanna buy my D7000? :whistle:

Seriously though, it depends on what they want it for.


Just curious, how much you want for the D7000?
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12 years 2 months ago #202493 by JM 0 DER
I'm photographing my clients using a crop sensor. Clients don't seem to care what kind of camera a photographer is using. I've seen photographers shoot portraits with a point and shoot.
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12 years 2 months ago #202501 by Henry Peach
When I shot film I used 35mm and medium format film for weddings and live music, and medium format and 4x5 film for portraits and landscapes.

When I switched to digital I started out with APS-C format DSLRs. After a few years I switched to 35mm DSLRs, and that's what I use for almost everything today. I have an APS-C DSLR that has been converted for infrared photography that I still use for landscapes occasionally, and I recently acquired an APS-C format compact digital camera that I have used for some landscape and live music photography.

I notice a difference in high ISO noise between my old APS-C DSLRs and my 35mm DSLRs, but the new APS-C compact is very, very close to the same high ISO noise as my oldest 35mm DSLR. For low ISO photos it appears to be impossible for photographers and non-photographers alike to determine which of my large prints were shot with APS-C or 35mm DSLRs.

Bigger is better makes the same sense for photography as it does anywhere else. Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's not, but in general people tend to believe it's always true even though there are plenty of examples of bigger not being better.
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12 years 2 months ago #202943 by Crammer
Crop :thumbsup:
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