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158-434: A | Cinema EOS C | high resolution camera ⋅ FIRMWARE ADD-ON: x Magic Lantern Support See also: Canon EOS digital cameras This camera-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Image sensor format#Common image sensor formats In digital photography, the image sensor format is the shape and size of the image sensor . The image sensor format of
237-412: A photographic lens is fixed by its optical construction, and does not change with the format of the sensor that is put behind it. Most DSLRs on the market have nominally APS-C -sized image sensors, smaller than the standard 36 × 24 mm (35 mm) film frame. The result is that the image sensor captures image data from a smaller area than a 35 mm film SLR camera would, effectively cropping out
316-455: A 35 mm format full-frame camera , but on a camera with a 1.6 crop factor, an image made with the same lens will have the same field of view that a full-frame camera would make with a ~45 mm lens (28 × 1.6 = 44.8). This narrowing of the FOV is a disadvantage to photographers when a wide FOV is desired. Ultra-wide lens designs become merely wide; wide-angle lenses become ' normal '. However,
395-769: A 36 × 24 mm frame of 35 mm film. As another example, the Pentax K200D 's sensor (made by Sony ) measures 23.5 × 15.7 mm, while the contemporaneous K20D 's sensor (made by Samsung ) measures 23.4 × 15.6 mm. Most of these image sensor formats approximate the 3:2 aspect ratio of 35 mm film. Again, the Four Thirds System is a notable exception, with an aspect ratio of 4:3 as seen in most compact digital cameras (see below). Most sensors are made for camera phones, compact digital cameras, and bridge cameras. Most image sensors equipping compact cameras have an aspect ratio of 4:3. This matches
474-429: A 9 mm sensor diagonal has a crop factor of almost 5 relative to the 43.3 mm diagonal of 35 mm film. Therefore, these cameras are equipped with lenses that are about one-fifth of the focal lengths that would be typical on a 35 mm point-and-shoot film camera. In most cases, manufacturers label their cameras and lenses with their actual focal lengths, but in some cases they have chosen to instead multiply by
553-439: A crop factor of about 6 ("1/2.5-inch" format). The crop factor is sometimes referred to as "magnification factor", "focal length factor" or "focal length multiplier". This usage reflects the observation that lenses of a given focal length seem to produce greater magnification on crop-factor cameras than they do on full-frame cameras. This is an advantage in, for example, bird photography, where photographers often strive to get
632-527: A digital camera determines the angle of view of a particular lens when used with a particular sensor. Because the image sensors in many digital cameras are smaller than the 24 mm × 36 mm image area of full-frame 35 mm cameras, a lens of a given focal length gives a narrower field of view in such cameras. Sensor size is often expressed as optical format in inches. Other measures are also used; see table of sensor formats and sizes below. Lenses produced for 35 mm film cameras may mount well on
711-423: A fixed focal-plane illuminance and exposure time , larger image sensors capture more photons and hence produce images with less image noise and greater dynamic range than smaller sensors. Due to the statistics of photon shot noise , the desirable properties of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and sensor unity gain both scale with the square root of pixel area. Since crop factor is inversely proportional to
790-614: A frame of APS -C film, with a crop factor of 1.5–1.6; or 30% smaller than that, with a crop factor of 2.0 (this is the Four Thirds System , adopted by Olympus and Panasonic ). As of November 2013 , there was only one mirrorless model equipped with a very small sensor, more typical of compact cameras: the Pentax Q7 , with a 1/1.7" sensor (4.55 crop factor). See Sensors equipping Compact digital cameras and camera-phones section below. Many different terms are used in marketing to describe DSLR/SLT/mirrorless sensor formats, including
869-415: A given fixed photon flux per pixel area (the P in the formulas); this analysis is useful for a fixed number of pixels with pixel area proportional to sensor area, and fixed absolute aperture diameter for a fixed imaging situation in terms of depth of field, diffraction limit at the subject, etc. Or it can be compared for a fixed focal-plane illuminance, corresponding to a fixed f-number , in which case P
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#1732787227720948-460: A given shutter speed for a sharp image is reduced by the crop factor. The old rule of thumb that shutter speed should be at least equal to focal length (in millimetres) for hand-holding will work equivalently if the actual focal length is multiplied by the FLM first before applying the rule. Many photographic lenses produce a more superior image in the center of the frame than around the edges. When using
1027-674: A lens aperture is where λ is the wavelength of the light passing through the system and N is the f-number of the lens. If that aperture is circular, as are (approximately) most photographic apertures, then the MTF is given by for ξ < ξ c u t o f f {\displaystyle \xi <\xi _{\mathrm {cutoff} }} and 0 {\displaystyle 0} for ξ ≥ ξ c u t o f f {\displaystyle \xi \geq \xi _{\mathrm {cutoff} }} The diffraction based factor of
1106-424: A lens designed to expose a 35 mm film frame with a smaller-format sensor, only the central "sweet spot" of the image is used; a lens that is unacceptably soft or dark around the edges can give better results on a smaller sensor. However, since the image projected onto the sensor must be magnified more to make a print using a smaller sensor, lenses used on smaller formats must deliver a higher-resolution image to
1185-450: A lens with the same f-number and angle of view, with a size proportional to the sensor crop factor. In practice, simple scaling of lens designs is not always achievable, due to factors such as the non-scalability of manufacturing tolerance , structural integrity of glass lenses of different sizes and available manufacturing techniques and costs. Moreover, to maintain the same absolute amount of information in an image (which can be measured as
1264-421: A limiting factor. And even at short or medium exposure times, a few outliers in the dark-current distribution may show up as "hot pixels". Typically, for astrophotography applications sensors are cooled to reduce dark current in situations where exposures may be measured in several hundreds of seconds. Dynamic range is the ratio of the largest and smallest recordable signal, the smallest being typically defined by
1343-693: A pixel's photoreceptor the geometrical extent (also known as etendue or light throughput) of the objective lens / pixel system must be smaller than or equal to the geometrical extent of the microlens / photoreceptor system. The geometrical extent of the objective lens / pixel system is given by G o b j e c t i v e ≃ w p i x e l 2 ( f / # ) o b j e c t i v e , {\displaystyle G_{\mathrm {objective} }\simeq {\frac {w_{\mathrm {pixel} }}{2{(f/\#)}_{\mathrm {objective} }}}\,,} where w pixel
1422-393: A sensor (SNR), expressed as signal electrons relative to rms noise in electrons, observed at the scale of a single pixel, assuming shot noise from Poisson distribution of signal electrons and dark electrons, is where P {\displaystyle P} is the incident photon flux (photons per second in the area of a pixel), Q e {\displaystyle Q_{e}}
1501-495: A small sensor can be fitted into a compact package. Small body means small lens and means small sensor, so to keep smartphones slim and light, the smartphone manufacturers use a tiny sensor usually less than the 1/2.3" used in most bridge cameras . At one time only Nokia 808 PureView used a 1/1.2" sensor, almost three times the size of a 1/2.3" sensor. Bigger sensors have the advantage of better image quality, but with improvements in sensor technology, smaller sensors can achieve
1580-399: A smaller image circle than lenses that were designed for the full-frame 35 mm format. Nevertheless, the crop factor or FLM of a camera has the same effect on the relationship between field of view and focal length with these lenses as with any other lens, even though the projected image is not as severely "cropped". In this sense, the term crop factor sometimes has confusing implications;
1659-453: A smaller image circle, the lenses can be optimized to use less glass and are sometimes physically smaller and lighter than those designed for full-frame cameras. Lenses designed for the smaller digital formats include Canon EF-S and EF-M lenses, Nikon DX lenses, Olympus Four Thirds System lenses, Sigma DC lenses, Tamron Di-II lenses, Pentax DA lenses, Fujifilm XF and XC lenses, and Sony Alpha (SAL) DT & E lenses. Such lenses usually project
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#17327872277201738-524: A standard output size. That is, the magnification, as usually defined from subject to focal plane, is unchanged, but the system magnification from subject to final output is increased. When a lens designed for 35 mm format is used on a smaller-format DSLR, besides the obvious reduction in field of view, there may be secondary effects on depth of field , perspective , camera-motion blur, and other photographic parameters. The depth of field may change, depending on what conditions are compared. Shooting from
1817-450: Is 'better than the best 35 mm lenses – but only for a very small image'. In summary, as sensor size reduces, the accompanying lens designs will change, often quite radically, to take advantage of manufacturing techniques made available due to the reduced size. The functionality of such lenses can also take advantage of these, with extreme zoom ranges becoming possible. These lenses are often very large in relation to sensor size, but with
1896-434: Is a property that depends only on viewpoint (camera position). But if moving a lens to a smaller-format camera causes a photographer to move further from the subject, then the perspective will be affected. The extra amount of enlargement required with smaller-format cameras increases the blur due to defocus, and also increases the blur due to camera motion (shake). As a result, the focal length that can be reliably hand-held at
1975-525: Is formed in a given mode of the camera. The active area may be smaller than the image sensor, and active area can differ in different modes of operation of the same camera. Active area size depends on the aspect ratio of the sensor and aspect ratio of the output image of the camera. The active area size can depend on number of pixels in given mode of the camera. The active area size and lens focal length determines angles of view. Semiconductor image sensors can suffer from shading effects at large apertures and at
2054-419: Is interesting to compare performance of cameras with small and big sensors. A good cell phone camera with typical pixel size 1.1 μm (Samsung A8) would have about 3 times worse SNR due to shot noise than a 3.7 μm pixel interchangeable lens camera (Panasonic G85) and 5 times worse than a 6 μm full frame camera (Sony A7 III). Taking into consideration the dynamic range makes the difference even more prominent. As such
2133-399: Is only partly correlated between pixels, and the shot noise associated with dark offset, which is uncorrelated between pixels. Only the shot-noise component Dt is included in the formula above, since the uncorrelated part of the dark offset is hard to predict, and the correlated or mean part is relatively easy to subtract off. The mean dark current contains contributions proportional both to
2212-504: Is performed by uniformly scaling the pixel. Considering the signal to noise ratio due to read noise at a given exposure, the signal will scale as the sensor area along with the read noise and therefore read noise SNR will be unaffected by sensor area. In a depth of field constrained situation, the exposure of the larger sensor will be reduced in proportion to the sensor area, and therefore the read noise SNR will reduce likewise. Dark current contributes two kinds of noise: dark offset, which
2291-444: Is proportional to pixel area, independent of sensor area. The formulas above and below can be evaluated for either case. In the above equation, the shot noise SNR is given by Apart from the quantum efficiency it depends on the incident photon flux and the exposure time, which is equivalent to the exposure and the sensor area; since the exposure is the integration time multiplied with the image plane illuminance , and illuminance
2370-419: Is the luminous flux per unit area. Thus for equal exposures, the signal to noise ratios of two different size sensors of equal quantum efficiency and pixel count will (for a given final image size) be in proportion to the square root of the sensor area (or the linear scale factor of the sensor). If the exposure is constrained by the need to achieve some required depth of field (with the same shutter speed) then
2449-426: Is the quantum efficiency , t {\displaystyle t} is the exposure time, D {\displaystyle D} is the pixel dark current in electrons per second and N r {\displaystyle N_{r}} is the pixel read noise in electrons rms. Each of these noises has a different dependency on sensor size. Image sensor noise can be compared across formats for
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2528-404: Is the ratio of a 35 mm frame's diagonal (43.3 mm) to the diagonal of the image sensor in question; that is, CF = diag 35 mm / diag sensor {\displaystyle {\text{CF}}={\text{diag}}_{35{\text{mm}}}/{\text{diag}}_{\text{sensor}}} . Given the same 3:2 aspect ratio as 35mm's 36 mm × 24 mm area, this is equivalent to
2607-926: Is the width of the photoreceptor and ( f /#) microlens is the f-number of the microlens. In order to avoid shading, G p i x e l ≥ G o b j e c t i v e , {\textstyle G_{\mathrm {pixel} }\geq G_{\mathrm {objective} },} therefore w p h o t o r e c e p t o r ( f / # ) m i c r o l e n s ≥ w p i x e l ( f / # ) o b j e c t i v e . {\displaystyle {\frac {w_{\mathrm {photoreceptor} }}{{(f/\#)}_{\mathrm {microlens} }}}\geq {\frac {w_{\mathrm {pixel} }}{{(f/\#)}_{\mathrm {objective} }}}.} If w photoreceptor / w pixel = ff ,
2686-593: Is the width of the pixel and ( f /#) objective is the f-number of the objective lens. The geometrical extent of the microlens / photoreceptor system is given by G p i x e l ≃ w p h o t o r e c e p t o r 2 ( f / # ) m i c r o l e n s , {\displaystyle G_{\mathrm {pixel} }\simeq {\frac {w_{\mathrm {photoreceptor} }}{2{(f/\#)}_{\mathrm {microlens} }}}\,,} where w photoreceptor
2765-401: Is to be avoided the f-number of the microlens must be smaller than the f-number of the taking lens by at least a factor equal to the linear fill factor of the pixel. The f-number of the microlens is determined ultimately by the width of the pixel and its height above the silicon, which determines its focal length. In turn, this is determined by the height of the metallisation layers, also known as
2844-426: The crop factor , format factor , or focal length multiplier of an image sensor format is the ratio of the dimensions of a camera 's imaging area compared to a reference format; most often, this term is applied to digital cameras , relative to 35 mm film format as a reference. In the case of digital cameras, the imaging device would be a digital image sensor . The most commonly used definition of crop factor
2923-425: The photolithography process, which requires separate masks and quality control steps. Canon selected the intermediate APS-H size, since it was at the time the largest that could be patterned with a single mask, helping to control production costs and manage yields. Newer photolithography equipment now allows single-pass exposures for full-frame sensors, although other size-related production constraints remain much
3002-445: The space-bandwidth product ) the lens for a smaller sensor requires a greater resolving power. The development of the ' Tessar ' lens is discussed by Nasse, and shows its transformation from an f /6.3 lens for plate cameras using the original three-group configuration through to an f /2.8 5.2 mm four-element optic with eight extremely aspheric surfaces, economically manufacturable because of its small size. Its performance
3081-496: The 'noise floor'. In the image sensor literature, the noise floor is taken as the readout noise, so D R = Q max / σ readout {\displaystyle DR=Q_{\text{max}}/\sigma _{\text{readout}}} (note, the read noise σ r e a d o u t {\displaystyle \sigma _{readout}} is the same quantity as N r {\displaystyle N_{r}} referred to in
3160-414: The 'same picture' conditions, same angle of view, subject distance and depth of field, then the f-numbers are in the ratio 1 / C {\displaystyle 1/C} , so the scale factor for the diffraction MTF is 1, leading to the conclusion that the diffraction MTF at a given depth of field is independent of sensor size. In both the 'same photometric exposure' and 'same lens' conditions,
3239-399: The 'stack height'. For a given stack height, the f-number of the microlenses will increase as pixel size reduces, and thus the objective lens f-number at which shading occurs will tend to increase. In order to maintain pixel counts smaller sensors will tend to have smaller pixels, while at the same time smaller objective lens f-numbers are required to maximise the amount of light projected on
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3318-405: The 35 mm film format, but often utilized existing 35 mm film format SLR lens mounts. Using an FLM of 1.5, for example, a photographer might say that a 50 mm lens on a DSLR "acts like" its focal length has been multiplied by 1.5, which means that it has the same field of view as a 75 mm lens on the film camera that they are more familiar with. Of course, the actual focal length of
3397-578: The SNR calculation ). The resolution of all optical systems is limited by diffraction . One way of considering the effect that diffraction has on cameras using different sized sensors is to consider the modulation transfer function (MTF). Diffraction is one of the factors that contribute to the overall system MTF. Other factors are typically the MTFs of the lens, anti-aliasing filter and sensor sampling window. The spatial cut-off frequency due to diffraction through
3476-404: The alternative term "focal length multiplier" is sometimes used for this reason. Smaller, non-DSLR, consumer cameras, typically referred to as point-and-shoot cameras, can also be characterized as having a crop factor or FLM relative to 35 mm format, even though they do not use interchangeable lenses or lenses designed for a different format. For example, the so-called "1/1.8-inch" format with
3555-456: The angle of view). The change in depth of field is brought about by the requirement for a different degree of enlargement to achieve the same final image size. In this case the ratio of depths of field becomes In practice, if applying a lens with a fixed focal length and a fixed aperture and made for an image circle to meet the requirements for a large sensor is to be adapted, without changing its physical properties, to smaller sensor sizes neither
3634-554: The aperture and ISO settings also need to be adjusted with respect to the crop factor. The focal length of the lens does not change by using a smaller imaging area; the field of view is correspondingly smaller because a smaller area of the image circle cast by the lens is used by the smaller imaging area. The terms crop factor and focal length multiplier were coined to help 35 mm film format SLR photographers understand how their existing ranges of lenses would perform on newly introduced DSLR cameras which had sensors smaller than
3713-516: The area and the linear dimension of the photodiode, with the relative proportions and scale factors depending on the design of the photodiode. Thus in general the dark noise of a sensor may be expected to rise as the size of the sensor increases. However, in most sensors the mean pixel dark current at normal temperatures is small, lower than 50 e- per second, thus for typical photographic exposure times dark current and its associated noises may be discounted. At very long exposure times, however, it may be
3792-489: The area of those equipping common compacts include Canon PowerShot G-series (G3 X to G9 X), Sony DSC RX100 series, Panasonic Lumix TZ100 and Panasonic DMC-LX15. Canon has APS-C sensor on its top model PowerShot G1 X Mark III. Finally, Sony has the DSC-RX1 and DSC-RX1R cameras in their lineup, which have a full-frame sensor usually only used in professional DSLRs, SLTs and MILCs. Crop factor In digital photography ,
3871-657: The aspect ratio of the popular SVGA , XGA , and SXGA display resolutions at the time of the first digital cameras, allowing images to be displayed on usual monitors without cropping. As of December 2010 most compact digital cameras used small 1/2.3" sensors. Such cameras include Canon Powershot SX230 IS, Fuji Finepix Z90 and Nikon Coolpix S9100. Some older digital cameras (mostly from 2005–2010) used even smaller 1/2.5" sensors: these include Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS62, Canon Powershot SX120 IS, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S700 , and Casio Exilim EX-Z80. As of 2018 high-end compact cameras using one inch sensors that have nearly four times
3950-447: The characteristic dimensions of the format, and thus l 1 / l 2 {\displaystyle l_{1}/l_{2}} is the relative crop factor between the sensors. It is this result that gives rise to the common opinion that small sensors yield greater depth of field than large ones. An alternative is to consider the depth of field given by the same lens in conjunction with different sized sensors (changing
4029-505: The crop factor (focal length multiplier) and label the 35 mm equivalent focal length . Reviewers also sometimes use the 35 mm-equivalent focal length as a way to characterize the field of view of a range of cameras in common terms. For example, the Canon Powershot SD600 lens is labeled with its actual focal length range of 5.8–17.4 mm. But it is sometimes described in reviews as a 35–105 mm lens, since it has
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#17327872277204108-421: The crop factor can be an advantage to photographers when a narrow FOV is desired. It allows photographers with long-focal-length lenses to fill the frame more easily when the subject is far away. A 300 mm lens on a camera with a 1.6 crop factor delivers images with the same FOV that a 35 mm film format camera would require a 480 mm long focus lens to capture. For a given exposure , for example for
4187-440: The depth of field nor the light gathering l x = l m m 2 {\displaystyle \mathrm {lx=\,{\frac {lm}{m^{2}}}} } will change. Discounting photo response non-uniformity (PRNU) and dark noise variation, which are not intrinsically sensor-size dependent, the noises in an image sensor are shot noise , read noise , and dark noise . The overall signal to noise ratio of
4266-446: The depth of field of sensors receiving the same photometric exposure – the f-number is fixed instead of the aperture diameter – the sensors are operating at the same ISO setting in that case, but the smaller sensor is receiving less total light, by the area ratio. The ratio of depths of field is then where l 1 {\displaystyle l_{1}} and l 2 {\displaystyle l_{2}} are
4345-575: The digital bodies, but the larger image circle of the 35 mm system lens allows unwanted light into the camera body, and the smaller size of the image sensor compared to 35 mm film format results in cropping of the image. This latter effect is known as field-of-view crop. The format size ratio (relative to the 35 mm film format) is known as the field-of-view crop factor, crop factor, lens factor, focal-length conversion factor, focal-length multiplier, or lens multiplier. Three possible depth-of-field comparisons between formats are discussed, applying
4424-404: The division of the noise measured in volts by the conversion gain of the pixel. This is given, for an active pixel sensor , by the voltage at the input (gate) of the read transistor divided by the charge which generates that voltage, C G = V r t / Q r t {\displaystyle CG=V_{rt}/Q_{rt}} . This is the inverse of the capacitance of
4503-413: The edges of the image that would be captured by the 36 mm × 24 mm 'full-size' film frame. Because of this crop, the effective field of view (FOV) is reduced by a factor proportional to the ratio between the smaller sensor size and the 35 mm film format (reference) size. For most DSLR cameras, this factor is 1.3–2.0×. For example, a 28 mm lens delivers a moderately wide-angle FOV on
4582-414: The exposures will be in inverse relation to the sensor area, producing the interesting result that if depth of field is a constraint, image shot noise is not dependent on sensor area. For identical f-number lenses the signal to noise ratio increases as square root of the pixel area, or linearly with pixel pitch. As typical f-numbers for lenses for cell phones and DSLR are in the same range f /1.5–2 it
4661-410: The f-number is not changed, and thus the spatial cutoff and resultant MTF on the sensor is unchanged, leaving the MTF in the viewed image to be scaled as the magnification, or inversely as the crop factor. It might be expected that lenses appropriate for a range of sensor sizes could be produced by simply scaling the same designs in proportion to the crop factor. Such an exercise would in theory produce
4740-439: The f-number required to equalise depth of field. But the aperture area is held constant, so sensors of all sizes receive the same total amount of light energy from the subject. The smaller sensor is then operating at a lower ISO setting , by the square of the crop factor). This condition of equal field of view, equal depth of field, equal aperture diameter, and equal exposure time is known as "equivalence". And, we might compare
4819-402: The feats of earlier larger sensors. These improvements in sensor technology allow smartphone manufacturers to use image sensors as small as 1/4" without sacrificing too much image quality compared to budget point & shoot cameras. For calculating camera angle of view one should use the size of active area of the sensor. Active area of the sensor implies an area of the sensor on which image
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#17327872277204898-543: The following: Obsolescent and out-of-production sensor sizes include: When full-frame sensors were first introduced, production costs could exceed twenty times the cost of an APS-C sensor. Only twenty full-frame sensors can be produced on an 8 inches (20 cm) silicon wafer , which would fit 100 or more APS-C sensors, and there is a significant reduction in yield due to the large area for contaminants per component. Additionally, full frame sensor fabrication originally required three separate exposures during each step of
4977-565: The formulae derived in the article on depth of field . The depths of field of the three cameras may be the same, or different in either order, depending on what is held constant in the comparison. Considering a picture with the same subject distance and angle of view for two different formats: so the DOFs are in inverse proportion to the absolute aperture diameters d 1 {\displaystyle d_{1}} and d 2 {\displaystyle d_{2}} . Using
5056-457: The linear fill factor of the lens, then the condition becomes ( f / # ) m i c r o l e n s ≤ ( f / # ) o b j e c t i v e × f f . {\displaystyle {(f/\#)}_{\mathrm {microlens} }\leq {(f/\#)}_{\mathrm {objective} }\times {\mathit {ff}}\,.} Thus if shading
5135-403: The maximum "reach". A camera with a smaller sensor can be preferable to using a teleconverter , because the latter affects the f-number of the lens, and can therefore degrade the performance of the autofocus. A given lens casts the same image no matter what camera it is attached to. The extra "magnification" occurs when the image is enlarged more to produce output (print or screen) that matches
5214-413: The periphery of the image field, due to the geometry of the light cone projected from the exit pupil of the lens to a point, or pixel, on the sensor surface. The effects are discussed in detail by Catrysse and Wandell. In the context of this discussion the most important result from the above is that to ensure a full transfer of light energy between two coupled optical systems such as the lens' exit pupil to
5293-416: The ratio of heights or ratio of widths; the ratio of sensor areas is the square of the crop factor. The crop factor is sometimes used to compare the field of view and image quality of different cameras with the same lens. The crop factor is sometimes referred to as the focal length multiplier ("Film") since multiplying a lens focal length by the crop factor gives the focal length of a lens that would yield
5372-474: The read transistor gate (and the attached floating diffusion) since capacitance C = Q / V {\displaystyle C=Q/V} . Thus C G = 1 / C r t {\displaystyle CG=1/C_{rt}} . In general for a planar structure such as a pixel, capacitance is proportional to area, therefore the read noise scales down with sensor area, as long as pixel area scales with sensor area, and that scaling
5451-404: The rear of the photodetectors and the microlens layer is placed directly on that surface, rather than the front side with its wiring layers. Some professional DSLRs, SLTs and mirrorless cameras use full-frame sensors, equivalent to the size of a frame of 35 mm film. Most consumer-level DSLRs, SLTs and mirrorless cameras use relatively large sensors, either somewhat under the size of
5530-403: The same absolute aperture diameter for both formats with the "same picture" criterion (equal angle of view, magnified to same final size) yields the same depth of field. It is equivalent to adjusting the f-number inversely in proportion to crop factor – a smaller f-number for smaller sensors (this also means that, when holding the shutter speed fixed, the exposure is changed by the adjustment of
5609-430: The same field of view if used on the reference format. For example, a lens with a 50 mm focal length on an imaging area with a crop factor of 1.6 with respect to the reference format (usually 35 mm) will yield the same field of view that a lens with an 80 mm focal length will yield on the reference format. If it is desired to capture an image with the same field of view and image quality but different cameras,
5688-421: The same position, with the same lens and same f-number as a non-cropped (full-frame) 35 mm camera, but enlarging the image to a given reference size, will yield a reduced depth of field. On the other hand, using a different lens with the same field of view as the non-cropped camera (matching the 35 mm-equivalent focal length), at same f-number, the smaller camera's depth of field is greater. Perspective
5767-406: The same size image for viewing must be accounted for, resulting in an additional scale factor of 1 / C {\displaystyle 1/{C}} where C {\displaystyle {C}} is the relative crop factor, making the overall scale factor 1 / ( N C ) {\displaystyle 1/(NC)} . Considering the three cases above: For
5846-456: The same. Due to the ever-changing constraints of semiconductor fabrication and processing, and because camera manufacturers often source sensors from third-party foundries , it is common for sensor dimensions to vary slightly within the same nominal format. For example, the Nikon D3 and D700 cameras' nominally full-frame sensors actually measure 36 × 23.9 mm, slightly smaller than
5925-403: The sensor. To combat the effect discussed above, smaller format pixels include engineering design features to allow the reduction in f-number of their microlenses. These may include simplified pixel designs which require less metallisation, 'light pipes' built within the pixel to bring its apparent surface closer to the microlens and ' back side illumination ' in which the wafer is thinned to expose
6004-512: The smaller crop factor and the higher signal-to-noise ratio. Most SLR camera and lens manufacturers have addressed the concerns of wide-angle lens users by designing lenses with shorter focal lengths, optimized for the DSLR formats. In most cases, these lenses are designed to cast a smaller image circle that would not cover a 24×36 mm frame, but is large enough to cover the smaller 16×24 mm (or smaller) sensor in most DSLRs. Because they cast
6083-436: The square root of sensor area (to within a small aspect ratio-dependent factor), it is useful for estimating image sensor performance. For example, if two different-sized image sensors have the same aspect ratio and a resolution of 10 megapixels , and are made using similar technology, the larger sensor will have better signal-to-noise ratio by a factor equal to the ratio of the two sensors' crop factors. The larger sensor has
6162-413: The system MTF will therefore scale according to ξ c u t o f f {\displaystyle \xi _{\mathrm {cutoff} }} and in turn according to 1 / N {\displaystyle 1/N} (for the same light wavelength). In considering the effect of sensor size, and its effect on the final image, the different magnification required to obtain
6241-431: The trend of increasing the number of "megapixels" in cell phone cameras during last 10 years was caused rather by marketing strategy to sell "more megapixels" than by attempts to improve image quality. The read noise is the total of all the electronic noises in the conversion chain for the pixels in the sensor array. To compare it with photon noise, it must be referred back to its equivalent in photoelectrons, which requires
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