Photography

24 readers

1 users here now

A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

communick@viewfinder.pro

does full frame has benefits ob shutter speed on equivalent focal length and aperture? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Parking_Association4@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

30 comments fedilink hide all child comments

it is said that full frame aperture equivalent of 2.8 to aps-c is 4.2. does it mean that shutter speed of aps-c is one stop slower that full frame on the same aperture? given the same focal length equivalent e.g. aps-c 23mm and ff 35mm.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] oldlurker114@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Larger aperture diameter (with the same field of view, as in this case) will collect more light over the same amount of time (and also the depth of field, DOF, will be more shallow). Thus with equal exposure time the larger format will have better image quality (due to more light being collected).

The density of light will be the same though as the light is spread over different areas (FF is 2.3 times larger than APS-C). This is relevant for the exposure calcualtion of the cameras exposure meter. Thus if you use an automatic exposure program, then same f-number on different formats gives you the same exposure time. That's kind of the point of the whole f-number system.