20mm wide angle on a D30

[funtasy]

How is it that when I use my Canon 20mm on my D30, what I see in the viewfinder is not what I get? The captured picture has much more on on right side, whereas on the left it captures exactly what I see in the viewfinder. This also sometimes happen when I use my 100mm macro lens.

[Belle&Sebastain]

Originally Posted by Nikon How is it that when I use my Canon 20mm on my D30, what I see in the viewfinder is not what I get? The captured picture has much more on on right side, whereas on the left it captures exactly what I see in the viewfinder. This also sometimes happen when I use my 100mm macro lens.

it is because the viewfinder is not 100%, its happens to be like that if you use SLRs or DSLRs that do have have 100% coverage, only the eos1 series have 100% viewfinder coverage. Welcome to digital SLR photograghy.

[nightwolf75]

Originally Posted by Nikon How is it that when I use my Canon 20mm on my D30, what I see in the viewfinder is not what I get? The captured picture has much more on on right side, whereas on the left it captures exactly what I see in the viewfinder. This also sometimes happen when I use my 100mm macro lens.

D30, D60, 10D, 300D, and the new 20D all share the same crop factor (ie magification factor) of 1.6x. ie ur 20mm lens on ur D30 will behave like a 32mm (agar-agar lah, give or take a few mm). why it happens is due to the small sensor in the cam - it does not have the same area as in a 35mm SLR camera.

good and bad lah, as u have found out by now. good thing - a 'short' lens becomes a 'tele' lens on a DSLR (ur 200mm ~ 320mm). bad thing - u lose out on WA lens. (16mm ~ 25.6mm). ie - its very troublesome if u want to take those sweeping landscape shots.

[funtasy]

I can understand that it is not 100% viewfinder coverage and the cropping, but how is it that the 'extra' that is being capture appears on the right for horizontal shots and on the top for vertical shots? How is it that they are not balance both for left and right?

[Belle&Sebastain]

Originally Posted by Nikon I can understand that it is not 100% viewfinder coverage and the cropping, but how is it that the 'extra' that is being capture appears on the right for horizontal shots and on the top for vertical shots? How is it that they are not balance both for left and right?

sorry its not balance as you just found out. me learn from the hard way too.