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Old 31-08-2006, 02:51 AM
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Re: Possibly a daft question...

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Originally Posted by speckled wood
Another bit of confudion with many Digital SLRs is that the effective telephoto is not the same as on a 35mm camera for instance my canon eos300D 18 to 55 is about equivilent to how a 28 to 75 would be on a 35mm camera. This is down to sensor size I think.
This is called the crop factor and is a multiplication of the image size compared to a standard SLR format.

Canon use 1.3x on 1D MKII and 1.6x on most other models except the 5D and 1Ds MKII which are full frame.

Nikon use 1.5x

Olympus 2x

etc etc

So you multiply the lens focal length by the crop factor of the camera to get the actual focal length.

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