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Canon 700D - Lens Advice
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16-07-2020 2:54pm#1
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Boredstiff666 wrote: »With Canon sensors they give you a crop of 1.6 which means that whatever lens you have on your camera. You need to multiply it by 1.6 to find it's true equivalent.
For example a 50mm lens becomes actually a 80mm .... 50 x 1.6 = 80.
A 100mm lens becomes a 160mm lens. 100 x 1.6 = 160.
Most cameras and their sensors are based on 35mm film cameras. So a 35mm lens on a 35mm film camera would give you a 'true' image production when transferred through the lens onto the film.
I suspect we're getting well out of the OP's depth here, but a couple of points:
1. Some Canon sensors! Canon make - and sell - plenty of cameras with full-frame sensors; even if the OP's partner's camera has the "cropped" APS-C.
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2. all other things being equal, the 1.6x crop factor only applies to the size of the image, not the depth-of-field. So if you want an 80mm lens to shoot shallow depth of field portraits, for example, you still need an 80mm lens, not an "equivalent" 50mm.
@OP, as the recipient too many time of well-intentioned gifts relating to something I was interested in by people who had very little understanding of my hobby, my suggestion would be to be very careful about spending (what could be) hundreds of euros/pounds/dollars on a lens that isn't on your partner's wish-list. There's one lens that I would like to add to my collection at the moment, and only one. I'd be really annoyed if someone spent 4k on a "really good lens" for me that wasn't that one, leaving me trying to figure out how to get the 4k back so I could buy the one I actually want, without offending those who chipped in for my special treat!
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CelticRambler wrote: »I suspect we're getting well out of the OP's depth here, but a couple of points:
1. Some Canon sensors! Canon make - and sell - plenty of cameras with full-frame sensors; even if the OP's partner's camera has the "cropped" APS-C.
and
2. all other things being equal, the 1.6x crop factor only applies to the size of the image, not the depth-of-field. So if you want an 80mm lens to shoot shallow depth of field portraits, for example, you still need an 80mm lens, not an "equivalent" 50mm.
@OP, as the recipient too many time of well-intentioned gifts relating to something I was interested in by people who had very little understanding of my hobby, my suggestion would be to be very careful about spending (what could be) hundreds of euros/pounds/dollars on a lens that isn't on your partner's wish-list. There's one lens that I would like to add to my collection at the moment, and only one. I'd be really annoyed if someone spent 4k on a "really good lens" for me that wasn't that one, leaving me trying to figure out how to get the 4k back so I could buy the one I actually want, without offending those who chipped in for my special treat!
Sorry was just trying to explain about landscapes as that is what I was into as well.
There are lots of things to take into account with lenses and cameras. Probably the best thing to do is sneakily get her talking about such then go to a camera shop with her for a look around and tell her you are buying.
She will be putty in your hands for a long time afterwards.:)0 -
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