Again, my response below only acknowledges some of the responses to this question, all of which were helpful.
On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:21 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> On 7/2/2010 9:55 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> Do I understand correctly that when using lenses designed for the 35mm frame >> the field of view through the viewfinder, and not just in the recorded >> image, will be 1.5 times what it would be on a film camera? > Focal length is a physical property of the lens. A 50mm lens designed > for 6x6, one designed for 35mm and one designed for 1.5x crop digital > will all have exactly the same field of view when shot with the same > camera. On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > In a manor of speaking, but based on the optics what you'll see will be the > center 2/3 of the frame you'd normally see.... This helps me understand what's going on. I different ways other responders made the same point. > if you compare it to the view through say an LX...the view will be quite > tunnel like. Definitely tunnel like even with my 50mm. Thanks to all, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
