Poll: Crop factor

[Vincent Sleep]

Which crop factor would you PREFER in your main camera?

[aam1234]

Currently using what I voted for. A 20D (1.6) and 5D (FF), though honestly I can live with just the 5D, but using both to avoid changing lenses often.

[JDArt]

I actually find the 1.3x crop of the 1D Mark II to be quite nice.

[Narsuitus]

I voted for “other” because I want a camera with a 1.0 plus an adjustable crop factor feature and an adjustable aspect ratio feature.

[RobAmy]

I like the 1.3 over the 1.6 that I have used

[jfrancho]

I'd like somewhere around .45 to .65 x.

[Paul Shields]

I have 2x crop factor (which isn't in the poll) on the Olympus E-1, and 1x crop factor on the 5D. Uninterestingly enough, I like both. The 2x is excellent on long lenses without suffering the physical length (e.g. a 450mm lens hand held " f/3.5), and the WA is useful on the 5D, though the vignetting can be significant wide open. I still believe that we're nowhere near a perfect FF solution in digital, but it's not as bad as I'd originally feared. FF has to be the future I feel so long as the sensors improve and make best use of current 'film era' lenses at all apertures, It's still early days...

[cyclohexane]

While I'd love to be shooting full frame cameras, it's not cost effective (or intelligent) at the moment for me to do so.* I trade a stop of relative DOF with my 1.5x crop cameras, but a 400mm suddenly becomes adequate for most field sports, with a 600mm being gravy.* Eventually, I want to be using full frame, as I can always get a longer lens while it's not always easy to back-up for wider shots, but not right now.

Still, I voted for 1.0x, as I want my digital Nikon FM/FE cameras one day. An FF manual DSLR replacing my FM2 would go great with my 20mm f/2.8 and 105mm f/1.8. I actually wouldn't mind a 1.5x crop sensor, but I'd prefer to have the old fields of view back.

[Jon]

I voted "other" because I really don't care, as long as it works.

[ohenry]

I agree, Jon. The crop factor just doesn't mean anything to me. I'm more interested in what's in my viewfinder. Then again, I have a FF sensor so I don't worry about "crop factor". When I had a 1.6 camera, I didn't do mental calculations to figure out what my field of view was in relation to a camera I wasn't using...I just took the pictures.