Wide angle camera question (a quickie!)

Correct. The lens itself is not smaller though necessarily, just the focal length is a smaller number (shorter)
 
do remember the crop factor, compacts have different crop factors, and a smaller crop can make a longer lens crop to wider. If that makes sense.
 
GLSauron said:
do remember the crop factor, compacts have different crop factors, and a smaller crop can make a longer lens crop to wider. If that makes sense.
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A crop factor adds focal length in most cases on current cameras out there, thus making the lens less wide. If it was a crop factor under 1 though, it would take away length and make the lens wider (FL smaller)

For example, for canon crop cameras it is 1.6x (on the Rebel and XXD lines). This means you take the FL x 1.6.

So a 50mm lens on a 1.6x camera is the equivalent of a 80mm lens on a full frame or standard 35mm film SLR and thus less wide.

If the crop factor was something like .8x though, it would become a smaller FL and thus wider.
 
Well if a "crop factor" became less than 1...then it wouldn't be called a crop factor anymore :eek:.

maybe magnification factor?
 
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