CAMERA CROP FACTOR FULL

Only on a camera with a 36x24mm full frame sensor, the nifty fifty’s diagonal angle of view will be 46°. on a camera with a recording medium the size of 35mm film, which is 36mm wide and 24mm high. The ‘nifty fifty’, which Canon’s cheap but cheerful 50mm f1.8 lens is commonly referred to as, was designed to be used on a ‘full frame’ body–i.e. The thing is, when digital SLRs became affordable for the masses, they weren’t equipped with sensors the size of 35mm film, but with smaller ‘APS-C’ sensors.Ī smaller sensor of course records less of the image the lens projects than a larger sensors. Well, the answer is simple: back in the old days of film photography, 50mm was widely regarded as the standard focal lengths for most situations, with an angle of view that is neither too narrow nor too wide. So you were seduced to buy it, and ended up wondering why the angle of view of the lens is so narrow–almost like that of a short tele lens. When you first bought that new Canon EOS Rebel, you might’ve read about a lens called the ‘nifty fifty’, or have come across an opinion piece praising the 50mm focal length, and why everyone should have a 50mm lens. After the break, we’ll go into detail how the crop factor is calculated, and how it relates to a lens’ focal length and other properties.

We’re speaking of the so-called ‘crop factor’, which determines the difference between the appearance of images taken with cameras with different sensor sizes, but the same lens. This will lead to an image that appears ‘cropped’ compared to an image taken with the same lens on a camera with a larger sensor. Part of the reason is that your camera system may have a smaller sized sensor than the system the lens was made for. When adapting the lens of one camera system to another, you may not always get the same results.

Camera crop factor