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The impact of sensor size

The impact of sensor size

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The impact of sensor size

Rich: Rob, if we were out shooting. Robbie: Uh-huh. Rich: I have my D7000 here. Robbie: Uh-hum. Rich: You've got a Canon 7D. Robbie: Yep. Rich: We put the exact same quality of lens on. We set the aperture to the exact same setting. We're going to still have different exposures, aren't we? Robbie: We are, unfortunately. You'd think with the same glass and, you know, the same F-Stop and all that kind of stuff you'd have perfectly matching exposures. That's just not the case. Depending on what camera body you're using, depending on the crop factor of that camera body, given all the same settings, you're still going to get potentially different exposures. Now it's not going to be something like night and day, but it could differ just a little bit. It's something to be aware of. Rich: Yeah, what's going to happen here is, I have got a crop factor of 1.5. You have, I believe, 1.6 on the Cannon body there. If we were shooting with a full body lens. Maybe I pulled out my D600 or you brought…

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