Cropped-frame cameras have a narrower field of vision than their full-frame counterparts. For example, the photo above shows the image a camera would capture depending on its sensor size.

Canon's DSLRs use two sensor sizes: full-frame and APS-C. The focal length of your lens depends on which type of camera you attach it to.

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Since an APS-C sensor is about 1.3 times smaller than a full frame sensor, for example, your field of view is cropped in by a factor of 1.3 and any lens you attach is going to take on that crop. A ...

Still, if you plan to go for a crop-sensor camera before full-frame, ... Rumored Sigma telephoto prime could be world-first 200mm F1.8 for mirrorless, and it sounds like a next-level portrait lens.

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Best of all, a 200mm telephoto lens, for instance, had the same reach as a 350 mm lens (Nikon, 1.5X multiplier) or 380mm lens (Canon, 1.6X multiplier) on a full-frame camera.

Do you really need an expensive full-frame camera? I spent a year with a cheap, secondhand crop sensor alternative to find ...

The Nikon 70-200mm f/4G ED VR boasts a respectable constant f/4 aperture and promises up to five stops of image stabilization. The recently announced 70-200 F/4 is an important lens for Nikon ...

But its premier crop-sensor model, the Canon EOS 7D (now $1,300 street), is in its fourth year with no replacement in sight. Nikon is in the same boat: new full-frame DSLRs, new sub-$1,000 cameras ...