In reply to Alistair McNaughton.

Hi Alistair,
I’m glad that I can enlighten somebody!
The factor that influenced me the most, was better ISO performance. I wanted to be able to take photos inside in natural light, so I went for the Canon 5D Mark III. At the time I decided to get myself a 5D Mark III I hadn’t started on my journey as a landscape and HDR photographer. There was a considerable delivery time on the camera, and by the time I received it, I was on my track to where I am today. Along the road I found out about lenses, crop factor etc. and because of that, I learned, that I had picked the wrong brand. Canon doesn’t have as wide zoom lenses as Nikon. After some (damn – I made a mistake, that’s gonna be expensive to fix) time I ate the bullet and switched to Nikon, which I haven’t regretted once.

Did I change my POV? Not because I moved to full frame, no. I changed my POV when I learned about composition and landscape photography. However, using cropped sensors does have the advantage of a larger depth of field, because you are using shorter lenses. And that does affect how I look on a scene, that there are limits to how close I can go to an object with a 14mm lens. Had I been using a 10mm lens at the same f-stop, I could almost cut in half the distance to the nearest object, and still get everything sharp and that does affect how I see a scene. I have to keep at leas 0,5m to the nearest object, unless I will use focus stacking or really optimize and get the right hyperfocal settings.

If you are considering to move to full frame, you might want to read my real life comparison between Canon 5D Mark III, Nikon D800 and Nikon D600, you find here: https://caughtinpixels.com/?p=766.

–Jacob

That article turned a few lights on for me.
What factor most influenced you to move from a cropped sensor to a full frame. Does using a full frame make you look at a scene differently from a composition POV?