DX delights

Bigger isn’t necessarily better. Matthew Richards serves up a feast of APS-C format DSLRs to suit all budgets and experience levels

There are some fabulous full-frame cameras in Nikon’s current lineup, all of which we featured in last month’s Big Test, but bigger isn’t necessarily better. DX format DSLRs are based on a smaller APS-C type image sensor, measuring approximately 24x16mm, about the same size as a regular postage stamp. That’s a considerable downsize from the 36x24mm of a full-frame image sensor, the latter being 50 per cent larger in both its horizontal and vertical dimensions. That makes the surface area of a full-frame sensor more than twice the size, with the potential benefits that we covered last month. But that’s not the whole story… The smaller dimensions of an APS-C format image sensor enable the physical build of DX cameras to be more compact and lightweight. Indeed, half of the cameras on…

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N-photo: The Nikon (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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