When does it become a wide angle lens?
Henry Peach wrote:
Ronald McD wrote: At what 'mm' does an average lens become a wide-angle lens?
Angle of view is determined by both focal length and format size.
For example a 50mm lens is long on formats smaller than 35mm, normal on 35mm format, and wide on formats larger than 35mm.
32mm focal length on APS-C format gives approximately the field of view as 50mm on 35mm format. This would be considered "normal". So on an APS-C camera anything shorter than 30mm is usually considered wide and anything much longer than 35 would be considered long.
But (there is always a "but"
) that is for "prime" focal lengths. Perfectly true that the 18-55 zoom covers mild WA thru to mild Telephoto (on the usual APS-C crop sensor). However, that's a mouthful. So it's common practice to call the 18-55 a "normal zoom". This gets further complicated by zoom range. A 18-135 includes the same 18-55 range, but is more likely to be called a "walkaround" zoom. Going further, a 18-200 might be labeled as a "universal" zoom. Depends on your copywriter.no help Kelly
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