Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/24

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Subject: [Leica] Depth of Field / Crop Factor was Doomed Leica MP 0.58X
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Mon Jan 24 16:22:42 2005
References: <460F2840-6E5F-11D9-975F-000393778554@netvigator.com>
 
On Jan 24, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Howard Cummer wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> The depth of field doesn't change - the lens mechanics remain the same 
> - it is just the field of view which is cropped by the smaller area of 
> the sensor. Henning Wulff may want to weigh in here as he sometimes 
> does (hello Henning!)
> Howard
> (in Foggy Hong Kong this morning)
> On Tuesday, Jan 25, 2005, at 03:41 Asia/Hong_Kong, 
> lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:


The way I understand it, it works like this:

Lets say you have a x1.5 mag factor on your D70

So a 50 shows the field of view of a 75, but you retain the DOF 
characteristics of the 50

Anyone?

feli

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