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Standard view lens for 1.6 crop
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(Nov 6, 2013, 03:24)epicurus Wrote:  When I hold my ancient OM1 to my right eye with its 50mm lens on it looks pretty much the same as my left eye looking on its own. You can blink alternate eyes and see only a small difference. When I fit the 28mm everything looks smaller but more is visible. With my 100mm the view is magnified but there's less in the picture. The standard 50mm lens gives a view most like my eyes on their own.

This topic can be difficult and confusing and is also not easy to describe but, as Ed has written, understanding it or not doesn't really matter in terms of taking good photos.

However, for those who are interested what you have described above might be misleading to some readers, because you would see the same effect if you looked through an APS-C DSLR using those same focal length lenses. But, of course, those observations do not make the 50mm a standard lens for the APS-C format cameras.

Philip
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Standard view lens for 1.6 crop - by saadsyed - Feb 5, 2007, 00:28
RE: Standard view lens for 1.6 crop - by MrB - Nov 5, 2013, 05:04
RE: Standard view lens for 1.6 crop - by EdMak - Nov 5, 2013, 07:58
RE: Standard view lens for 1.6 crop - by MrB - Nov 5, 2013, 11:10
RE: Standard view lens for 1.6 crop - by EdMak - Nov 5, 2013, 12:42
RE: Standard view lens for 1.6 crop - by MrB - Nov 6, 2013, 05:41
RE: Standard view lens for 1.6 crop - by EdMak - Nov 6, 2013, 04:28
Standard view lens for 1.6 crop - by Pat - Feb 5, 2007, 14:40

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