Full frame vs aps c vs micro 4 3 how to#

You have to go into the details and start pixel peeping to see the differences. APS-C sensor size development has also improved. From all the sensor sizes I think M4/3 made the best development in Image Quality over the same development timeline as other sensors. In the old days yes, but now not anymore. So you can say that MF should be the best and M4/3 the worst. The bigger the sensor the more light it captures, more (fine) detail and less noise. Those 4 are the most used sensor sizes in photography. For this article I will focus on MF, Full Frame, APS-C and M4/3. In the graph below you see all the available sensor sizes.

Each sensor and therefore each camera body got its advantages and disadvantages over another. FF (Full Frame), APS-C (Crop sensor), M4/3 (Micro four thirds) and MF (Medium Format). For DSLR and Mirrorless there are basically 4 types of sensors. And every photographer will tell you different what is best. There is a lot to do about sensor formats. Let’s start at the beginning: Sensor size.

Full frame vs aps c vs micro 4 3 how to#

In my tutorial ‘ For the beginner photographer: How to start with photography – Part 2‘ I already explained a bit about sensor sizes. If you make the same photo with different sensor sizes at base ISO it is really hard to tell which photo is taken with which sensor. Fast forward to today, those gaps are nearly closed.

When digital photography started the gaps between the various sensor sizes were considerable. For some sensor size does matter for others it doesn’t (like me). Does sensor size matter ? Well, it depends all on what you want, what you shoot, for what and who.