The cameras tend to be smaller and lighter. If you find that APS-C is good enough - and for many photographers is is more than good enough - this smaller format has some other advantages. A very experienced photographer carefully comparing side-by-side prints might see a subtle difference. The odds are that virtually no one would notice at 20″ x 30”. In all honesty, you could hang 16″ x 24″ prints from the 24MP APS-C system and from the 51MP full frame system side by side… and no one would notice a difference. So, how large will you print? If your realistic answer is, “probably no larger than 16″ x 24″, you can get excellent results from the APS-C camera as long as you use good technique. But if you are at the point of getting a new APS-C camera and you wonder if 40MP even makes sense in this format… it does. This is not a “night and day” difference, but one you might notice if you make large prints and look closely. If you have an older 24MP or 26MP sensor, should you go out and upgrade? Not necessarily. Test images that I have made show lenses I regularly use with the camera are “sharp” enough to produce details that benefit from the higher sensor resolution. While my main use for the camera is not landscape, I have now made some landscape photographs with it, and I feel like I have a sense of whether the high resolution sensor is useful in this smaller format. Update (): During the past month I acquired a Fujifilm X-T5, a new 40MP APS-C camera. But my other system uses a Canon 51MP sensor, and it can go even larger, reliably producing 30″ x 45″ and larger print sizes. I’m absolutely confident that I can produce excellent 20″ x 30″ prints from images shot on this system. One of my camera systems uses a 24MP Fujifilm APS-C sensor. So the larger, higher MP system can help if you are likely to produce very large prints. If you work with care, using a tripod and a remote release and paying careful attention to things like accurate focus, aperture selection, and camera stability, you can produce a larger print from the higher MP full frame image. The classic understanding holds that, for example, a 50MP full frame sensor can resolve more detail than, say, a 24MP APS-C sensor. However, there are some considerations that turn this into a somewhat subjective question with more than one “correct” answer. You might think the answer is obvious - a system with a larger sensor and high megapixel resolution is capable of producing images with more detail. (Photographed with a Fujifilm XPro2 and the Fujifilm 16-55mm f/2.8 lens.) “Alpine Lake, Morning” - A solitary sunrise angler stands on shoreline rocks at an alpine Sierra Nevada lake reflecting a nearby peak.
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