The imaging sensor size in your camera does affect how you make your photography and some make a huge deal out of it. It’s my goal today to make a big deal out of nothing, or at least to help you understand my approach to it all. This is Latitude Photography Podcast, Episode 61 for December 15, 2019! Links Mentioned in today’s show: Show Sponsor: Golden Hour Podcast by Polar Pro Filters https://www.polarprofilters.com/pages/golden-hour Neil Van Niekerk blog post on Depth-of-field comparison between sensor sizes:  https://neilvn.com/tangents/full-frame-vs-crop-sensor-cameras-comparison-depth-of-field/?fbclid=IwAR3dtWwVErLMagKNckknaNwo2xetoSXpfHCtKTkeYnmf2dZ5D8zdhpDo9pc The BEST DOF calculator out there by Cambridge in Colour https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dof-calculator.htm Fstoppers article https://fstoppers.com/education/which-sensor-size-suits-your-type-photography-best-436071#comment-thread LatitudePhotographySchool Mentorship https://latitudephotographyschool.com/training-center/mentorship/ Use this link AND the code "latitude15" the next time you need to rent gear. I'll get a small percentage and you'll get 15% off. Lensrentals.com affiliate link: https://www.gopjn.com/t/SENJRktJT01DR09OS0lLQ0dLT0tGTg Need to carry your gear in style? Treat yourself to a ThinkTank Photo bag with this link and get a free gift at checkout: http://bit.ly/2IMRhOT Sign up to be the first notified when the new Latitude Photography School is available and open for business: https://latitudephotographyschool.com Main Topic. Today, we are talking about the effect that sensor size has on our image making. I’ve come across a few articles recently and have had some conversations about this with a few photographers, so it’s really fresh on my mind.  I had planned on doing a gift guide, but I then decided that really just adds to the commercialism of Christmas and we have enough of that already, it seems that everyone and their brother is publishing a gift guide of some sort, so I decided to do something that’s a bit more in tune with what I’ve been thinking about these past few days. The first article I want to bring your attention to was written over 5 years ago by Neil van Niekerk. It’s a good rundown of what happens to your image when you shoot with a full-frame vs. a crop sensor. The second article is one that was published recently by Nando Harmsen on the fstoppers.com website.  This article is less technical and simply draws attention the the many different sizes of sensors and things like different lenses needed to achieve the same field of view are discussed.  But the final link I want to bring your attention to is the best Depth-Of-Field Calculator I’ve yet found which demystifies this whole thing. It gets rather technical so I’ll do my best to break it all down here for you, so let’s get started. (review of crop factor etc) To sum up the first article, the author goes through a very detailed step by step guide as to why we have shallower Depth of field on a crop sensor camera. What he fails to explicitly articulate is that by doing this comparison the way he’s doing it, we absolutely will get longer DOF simply because you need a shorter lens to get the same field of view. He referenced this article on Depth of Field by Cambridge in Colour but missed out one very key element. That is when we calculate DOF, we have to have a standard for interpretation. Since DOF is a sliding scale of sorts, who’s to say what’s in focus for me is also in focus for you? That’s why we call DOF to be the items that are in acceptably sharp focus. If you used a standard DOF calculator such as Photo Pills, and you were to put in the parameters of a Sony crop sensor camera, 28mm lens, f/8 and subject distance of 2 ft your calculated DOF is 5 and 21/32 of an inch. Switch that to a Sony full frame with the same paramaters, and your calculated DOF is 8 and 25/32 of an inch.  Wait a minute. This