In our time it is difficult to find a person who would not have heard about full-frame cameras. A large number of photographers and just fans are singing laudatory odes to cameras that have large sizes of matrices.
What does it mean - a full-frame camera?
In order to understand the full frame, you should look into the history of creating an image. For all the time the camera was used, films or matrices of all sizes were used.
The matrix is the part responsible for the formation of the frame. When you open the shutter, it catches and recognizes the image. In film cameras, this role was performed by each exposed film frame. The film with a width of 35 mm was very popular. So, now the camera with a matrix of the same size as the 35-mm film camera, is full-frame.
Before the full-frame cameras appeared, DX cameras (with a smaller sensor) and digital SLR cameras with a small matrix size were used. Professionals such cameras call "kropnutye" or camera with a "crochet-matrix."
What full-frame camera to choose?
You have already decided that you will move to a full-frame camera, but do not know which one to purchase? To begin with it is not necessary to buy super-expensive and clever cameras of last models. Look for yourself, as for a beginner, something more simple, old, maybe even in the market, where they sell second-hand equipment. And after you have mastered all the basics, you can switch to expensive models of a newer model.
For the entire time of the existence of full-frame cameras, only a couple of dozen models were on sale. For a mass buyer, only three companies produce full-frame cameras: Nikon, Canon, Sony. There is also the "Leica", but ordinary mortals can not afford to buy it, because the average price for a model of this brand without an objective is 150 thousand rubles.
In the price-quality ratio, the ideal option to look at is the Canon 5D and Nikon D700 cameras. Their price does not exceed $ 700.