Full frame vs crop

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I have a Nikon D300s. My main lens is Nikon 16-85. I mainly shoot JPEG. I shoot some landscape and old railway stations, tracks etc. Somebody told me that I would not see a lot of difference between full frame and crop when shooting during daytime. The real difference would be when shooting in very low light situations. Is there anyone on the forum that can tell me about this. I was planning to upgrade my D300s to Nikon D600 and Nikon 24-120 f4.
 
Is that your only lens? Sounds to me like you need more/better glass before going FF.
FF is great for many reasons, most can easily be found by a quick google search. Low light, better framing, lenses at the correct mm etc etc.
 
I have got my 16-85, 70-300 VR and 50mm f1,8, all Nikon lenses. The Nikon 16-85 can produce very good pictures. The lens has also got several very good reviews. I enhance my pictures in Photoshop Elements 9.
 
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I have a Nikon D300s. My main lens is Nikon 16-85. I mainly shoot JPEG. I shoot some landscape and old railway stations, tracks etc. Somebody told me that I would not see a lot of difference between full frame and crop when shooting during daytime. The real difference would be when shooting in very low light situations. Is there anyone on the forum that can tell me about this. I was planning to upgrade my D300s to Nikon D600 and Nikon 24-120 f4.
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I went from 20D to 5D and I expected great things but I have to say that at low to middling ISO's and after processing shots to get the best out of them there's next to no difference in 20D and 5D shots. At the higher ISO's the 5D begins to pull ahead and the difference is more obvious.

When I first got into Micro Four Thirds I struggled a bit but now I think the same about G1 v 5D as I did about 20D v 5D in that at low to middling ISO's and normal print sizes images are next to indistinguishable and I really have to go to the extremes of ISO or pixel peeping to see any significant difference after post capture processing.

My advice is as above, shoot RAW and process your shots to get the best out of them and only then consider changing your kit. But don't expect new kit to suddenly hit you with a WoW factor.
 
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