Amateur shutterbugs and professionals alike need gear to suit their needs. Cropped-sensor and full-frame cameras excel at different jobs. Here's how to choose.

Mike Collins’ setup compares a 5D Mark II, which has a full-frame sensor, and a 7D, which has a smaller APS-C sized sensor. Using a variety of lenses, the video illustrates exactly how the crop ...

By the same token, place a lens devised for an APS-C camera on a full-frame camera and you’ll also get a cropped frame too, because you’re no longer using the entire sensor.

If you’re shopping for a digital camera, sensor size is one of the first things you’ll hear about. Chances are you’ve seen terms like “crop sensor,” “full frame,” and “micro four ...

APS-C sensors are sometimes called "crop sensors", because if you use the same lens on both cameras then the smaller APS-C sensor area means that some of the image is cropped.

Chances are that if you are getting into shooting wildlife, you have weighed a full-frame setup with a teleconverter versus a crop sensor camera.

Is the implication that if you take the full-frame, you'll then have to bring another longer-than-200mm lens? If it's merely a choice between the 6D/16-35/70-200 vs 60D/16-35/70-200, by all means ...

Full-frame has an indirect advantage over a crop-sensor for acquiring a shallow depth-of-field, which is an important consideration especially for portrait photographers.

Common sensor formats Among consumer cameras, crop factor is always in reference to “full frame,” a sensor size equal to a frame of 35-millimeter film.

Do you really need an expensive full-frame camera? I spent a year with a cheap, secondhand crop sensor alternative to find out ...