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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 173489" data-attributes="member: 13090">In short, yes; you are correct about your 50mm lens and it's 75mm perspective. Your 50mm does not give you a &quot;wide viewing angle&quot;; a 50mm lens on a full-frame (FX) camera would give you &quot;normal perspective&quot;, meaning the lens perspective would be the same as what the naked eye perceives. This is not really &quot;wide angle&quot; by any means. On your DX sensor you don't have &quot;normal&quot; perspective due to the crop factor, you have what amounts to 50% zoom or, roughly, a 75mm lens perspective. You might want to move to a 35mm f/1.8 if you want to stick with a prime lens and have a &quot;normal perspective&quot; sort of lens. For something truly wide angle the Nikon 18-105mm is a great all-purpose lens. For a lot less you could pick up a Nikon 18-55mm which would be lighter and more compact as well. There are other choices of course, those are just a couple off the top of my head.This whole dilemma is what I call the &quot;double-edge sword&quot; of the DX format sensor: I love that my 55-200mm zoom acts like an 85-300mm by virtue of the 1.5x crop factor but it on the other hand gives me fits when I want to go wide angle... For example my Tokina 11-16mm is has an 18-24mm perspective because of this crop factor which I find really freaking annoying if I think about it too much....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 173489, member: 13090"] In short, yes; you are correct about your 50mm lens and it's 75mm perspective. Your 50mm does not give you a "wide viewing angle"; a 50mm lens on a full-frame (FX) camera would give you "normal perspective", meaning the lens perspective would be the same as what the naked eye perceives. This is not really "wide angle" by any means. On your DX sensor you don't have "normal" perspective due to the crop factor, you have what amounts to 50% zoom or, roughly, a 75mm lens perspective. You might want to move to a 35mm f/1.8 if you want to stick with a prime lens and have a "normal perspective" sort of lens. For something truly wide angle the Nikon 18-105mm is a great all-purpose lens. For a lot less you could pick up a Nikon 18-55mm which would be lighter and more compact as well. There are other choices of course, those are just a couple off the top of my head. This whole dilemma is what I call the "double-edge sword" of the DX format sensor: I love that my 55-200mm zoom acts like an 85-300mm by virtue of the 1.5x crop factor but it on the other hand gives me fits when I want to go wide angle... For example my Tokina 11-16mm is has an 18-24mm perspective because of this crop factor which I find really freaking annoying if I think about it too much. [COLOR=#ffffff]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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