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> You really need to know the sensor size to adjust accordingly. Absolutely. Focus length without sensor size (or film size) is a meaningless indicator for FOV
by roelschroeven 6y ago
> You really need to know the sensor size to adjust accordingly.
Absolutely. Focus length without sensor size (or film size) is a meaningless indicator for FOV.
But when it comes to a FOV being equivalent to the human eye, surely we should take display size into account as well. A photo made with a 500mm lens displayed at 4"x6" has exactly the same perspective as a photo taken from the same place with a 50m lens, displayed at 40"x60". In fact that small picture is basically the same as the large one cropped to the size of the small one.
It's a factor I never see mentioned. The usual explanation is that a "normal" lens gives more or less the same image when we look through the viewfinder as when we look directly, without the camera. But we don't look at photographs through a camera's viewfinder; we see them on our screens, on billboards, on prints.
- steerablesafe 6y agoThen you can go all the way and factor in viewing distance as well, then with the physical dimensions of the medium and the viewing distance you get an actual FOV, which better to be in the same order of magnitude as the FOV of the camera when the picture was taken to look realistic.