Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]APS-2 or close to 1.5 crop factor format is within 1% of being half frame. Half linearly of 24x36 Its roughly 18x24. Anyone ever use Olympus Pen or other half frame gear? Its a smaller format for sure in every way. Everything is smaller. Glass. Bodies. There are advantages to that. If you want them. I used my D40x today as I do everyday. Its real small and light. And in effect half frame. If it was full frame I'd have left it at home. I was doing too much walking in unfamiliar neighborhoods to drag too much weight around. 35mm film cameras got quite small in the last decade of the past millennium. Can DSLR's and digital M's with so called full frame sensors be the same size as their film counterparts? Of course they can but we have to wait 4 years. Which means 2. As the digital rule is it never takes half as long as you think. At max. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Richard Man <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:52:35 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: New Nikon D700 full frame > > I think that's exactly the problem. The APS-C'ish format cameras are > introduced as being able to take your old 35mm SLR lens, but not > exactly. Plus that the format is still young and 1.5 is not that far > away from the 1x, add to the problems of visualizing with this new > format. The 4/3 format 2X is sufficiently far that after using it for > a few months, I can visualize when to use the 12-60mm vs. the 35-100 > and think in terms of those FLs. > > > At 03:40 PM 7/1/2008, Lottermoser George wrote: >> Thanks Frank. Drives me crazy (for no good reason - I suppose ;~) >> >> We never called a 165mm anything other 165mm whether we used to >> expose 8x10, 5x7, 4x5 or 120 film. >> Focal length doesn't change because we change format. >> >> I suppose "crop factor" has some limited rhetorical uses. >> >> Bottom line: get to know your format and you'll soon be able to >> visualize what any focal length lens will "look" like on that format. > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, > please use richard at imagecraft.com) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information