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Understanding the impact of sensor sizes

Understanding the impact of sensor sizes

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Understanding the impact of sensor sizes

- Right now we're gonna take a look at the difference between full frame versus Micro Four Thirds. I've got a Micro Four Thirds camera here, the GH4, and if I check my settings I could see that I'm shooting at ISO 640, which is a reasonable ISO for shooting under controlled lighting situations. You have the same? - Yeah, on the Sony a7S mark two, a full frame sensor camera, we have the same ISO, 640, but we're stopped down a couple of stops at to F 13. And I had to open up to about F 7.1 here to get similar performance. So I'm gonna just roll here, so we can compare these two video files. Are you rolling on your end? - Yeah, here we go, we're gonna roll on the PIX. And recording. - Great, so you can see as you look at these two files that by eye we more or less matched them, and they are similarly exposed, but dramatically different apertures. Now our shutter speeds are the same, I'm at 60, you're at a 60th of a second, that's totally fine, but this really helps illustrate the…

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