Bargain Pro Camera - FX Lenses on DX Cameras A Guest Post by Douglas Cape z360.com I am often asked for camera recommendations and my standard reply is the Nikon D5500. The later D5600 is basically the same camera with Snapbridge (an app for phones), which I never use. To make this into a “Pro“ camera I suggest attaching some full frame FX lenses, which will give you startling sharpness, very little vignetting and no corner fuzziness. You are just using the best part of the lens, which is basically over-engineered for usage on DX crop sensor cameras. Take a look at nearly all MTF charts and you are avoiding the wavy (not as sharp) part of the graph on the right-hand side, which is the edge of the sensor. Here is the Nikon MTF Chart for their AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G full frame lens. On a DX camera you are only using the lens up to the vertical dotted line. A note about terminology. A DX or APS-C camera is a so-called crop sensor camera, meaning the sensor is 1.5x smaller than a full-frame FX camera. The sensor in a full frame camera is 24x36mm, the same as classic 35mm film. Thus on a crop DX camera, the standard 50mm lens becomes a 75mm lens (50x1.5=75), a short telephoto. DX lenses cannot normally be used on full frame FX cameras, the image does not cover the whole sensor. On a DX camera, a standard lens would be a...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Saturday, 15 June, 2019