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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Mike Harris

Math sucks; stop making me calculate equivalent focal length!

Nikon Z fc in front of a chalkboard full of equations .

I’ve always had a big problem with crop factor. Not the entirely necessary concept itself, but the numbers on the side of the lens barrel.

It always seemed ludicrous to me that an APS-C lens doesn’t simply display its 35mm equivalent focal length. Something like 52.2mm (for example) doesn’t look particularly tidy, sure, but a lens’ focal length isn’t an exact science, so rounding it to the nearest whole number wouldn’t be beyond the pale.

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