The digital camera I own at current is the Canon 10d (old I know), so to find out what lens will have a similar area of coverage to the medium format 50mm lens, I need to do some maths!
According to this graph at graflex.org the 50mm medium format lens is the equivalent to a 24mm lens on a 35mm camera.
However, my Canon 10d has a
24mm / 1.6 = 15mm.
...So my DSLR will need to use a 15mm lens in order to have a similar coverage to the 50mm medium format.
Apparently, the equivalent focal lengths can be inaccurate, and I have read on other websites that the 50mm equivalent on 35mm cameras is more like 28mm, which would be 17.5mm (18mm) on my Canon 10d.
The nearest lens that I own to either 15mm or 18mm would be the crappy kit lens (18-50mm) that came with the camera, so I will probably take this out in order to get the closest representation that I can.
My brain hurts now.
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i didn't really read all....but im already confused with the 'special' language...
what are you talking about....
hehe, doesn't really matter too much, it was more reference for me i guess.
it's basically stating how to convert lens focal lengths from medium format cameras to canon dslr's.
cos i am having trouble getting access to the medium format digital camera at uni.
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