HI All,
I am new to this forum and also to photography. Did some Film based SLR photography and am trying to move to DSLR. I was scouting to some information and was trying to understnad the concepts. I came across this new way (it may not be new, but i am not aware of it) of lens marking. I can relate to the lens convention of denoting the zoom factor as 35mm to 70mm or 28mm to 200mm etc. But lately with the DSLR i see that the lens range for zoom are marked as 18 - 70mm etc. What does this?
Are the lens more wide angle than b4.
I think they are not, is there a multipication factor that needs to be multiplied to convert the zoom range to the traditional convention.
Would appreciate if someone cud throw some light on this topic will help me understand this aspect of photography much better.
THanks in Advance for the clarification and knowledge provided to this novice.
Regards
Sameer
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I am new to this forum and also to photography. Did some Film based SLR photography and am trying to move to DSLR. I was scouting to some information and was trying to understnad the concepts. I came across this new way (it may not be new, but i am not aware of it) of lens marking. I can relate to the lens convention of denoting the zoom factor as 35mm to 70mm or 28mm to 200mm etc. But lately with the DSLR i see that the lens range for zoom are marked as 18 - 70mm etc. What does this?
Are the lens more wide angle than b4.
I think they are not, is there a multipication factor that needs to be multiplied to convert the zoom range to the traditional convention.
Would appreciate if someone cud throw some light on this topic will help me understand this aspect of photography much better.
THanks in Advance for the clarification and knowledge provided to this novice.
Regards
Sameer
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