This is where understanding “crop factor” is important. When photographing wildlife and sometimes sports, I often use a DX camera because of that smaller sensor. That lens is not DX, so I can use and get full resolution with both my DX and FX cameras. I shot this in Montana back in 2014 with a Nikon D5300 and 80-400mm lens. ![]() However, if you want to save size and weight, then you’d want to look for DX lenses for your DX cameras. The advantage to that is that you can use almost any Nikon F-mount lens on any of those cameras (and the F-mount has been around for decades). That’s true of both their FX (full-frame) cameras as well as their DX DSLRs. However, just because a camera has a smaller sensor doesn’t guarantee it will use smaller lenses.Īll of Nikon’s digital mirror-based cameras (DSLRs) use Nikon’s F-mount. If you truly want to shrink the size and weight of the gear you carry, you should look at cameras that have sensors that aren’t “full-frame.” For me, as a Nikon shooter, that means their DX cameras. So a camera with a smaller sensor can use smaller lenses. Larger sensors require larger lenses, because those lenses need enough glass to project an image into the back of the camera to fill that sensor. Why? Because they offered certain advantages, which is why I’m a big fan of DX cameras. But even after I got my first “full-frame” camera (a Nikon D3), I continued to use cameras with smaller sensors (APS-C, or what Nikon calls “DX”). ![]() For those first ten years, every camera I used had a sensor smaller than a piece of 35-millimeter film (what is now referred to as “full frame”). I’ve been shooting digital for over twenty years, starting with a 1.3-megapixel camera that cost $15,000.
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