On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:32, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I absolutely despise all this "crop factor" nonsense. It's so
ridiculous.
There's no such thing as a crop factor. Field of view is a property
of a focal length combined with a format. Normal on 35 film is 50mm,
normal on FourThirds is 25mm, normal on 645 is 75mm, etc. That's all.
It's just people's shorthand for understanding at a glance what the
FOV will be for a particular lens, after so many years of the
"standard" of 35mm film cameras. I agree that it's not 100% necessary
to think of lenses that way, but some people (myself included, but I'm
adjusting) are used to thinking of a particular field-of-view as
"28mm=wide" or "50mm=normal" and that gets changed when you shift down
to a smaller camera.
I liken it to people learning a new language. When you start out, you
are always translating in your head... "Buch = Book" and "Strasse =
Street". After a while, though, when you really KNOW the language,
you can look at the item and think: "Bahnhof"! without having to do
the translation in your head.
I think this "Crop-factor" way of thinking is just that: doing a
translation in your head each time instead of just "knowing" what a
particular lens will look like when used on a particular camera.
My thoughts, anyways...
BTW, I love the looks of that Panasonic. You're KILLING me here!
-Charles
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