Life is full of foolish myths, ideas that are planted in our brains by rumor, gossip, or misperception, and seem to endure. One of those myths in photography is that sensor size affects depth of field ...

Sensor size and focal length The size of the sensor inside a camera has a direct effect on what kind of lenses can be used with that camera. If you buy a compact camera the lens is built into the body ...

This newly updated, and highly useful chart, illustrates all major camera sensors side-by-side. Phil Holland has just updated his extremely popular sensor chart to include the latest cameras. This isn ...

The differences in size in commonly-used image sensors. Full-frame: image sensor size 36 x 24 mm – which has the same surface area as a 35mm film frame. APS-C: image sensor size between 21.5 x 14.4 mm ...

You all know that the size of a camera's sensor changes the effective focal length of a lens, right? But what about its effect on depth-of-field? We know that cameras with smaller sensors we get more ...

Manufacturers of compact digital cameras have long used a rather ambiguous way to define the sizes of the sensors in their products. The system used dates back to video camera tubes used in the 1950s, ...

Sensor Size Noise Results The sensor in a digital camera is the electronic version of film, and records light to create a digital image. The size of the sensor determines how much light can be ...

Do you need to buy a full-frame camera in 2026, or is an APS-C good enough? A lot has happened recently – some new, higher-resolution APS-C cameras appear to close the gap between them and full-frame ...