Gale got a new camera a while back.  Her first full frame.  Big deal I thought.  Is a full frame really that different?

YES IT IS

When I first looked through it I couldn’t stop laughing.  Not that it’s funny, but just what a difference it makes.  I literally did a double take.  She has a 17mm lens and I’m sure it has a 90 degree field of view. Actually I just looked it up, it’s 93 degree!   For comparison, my 40D was 67 degrees with the same lens!  This is HUGE!

But it meant that I got her 40D for a great deal.  I was happy, she was happy, we was happy.

Until it broke.   I was taking shots of flowers and it shuddered, gurgled and stopped.  Then all it would do was give an ERR99, which is a generic fault for a million different things.   I suspect it was the curtain lens busted.  $200+ repair.  Or I could just spend the extra and get a 6D.

So I did.

Today we are going to Crown Hill to try it out.  her with her fancy 17mm and me with my 50mm (which I love)

FYI on my old camera my 50mm acted like an 84mm which gave me a 24 degree field of vision and now gives me 40 degrees!