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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whiskeyman" data-source="post: 168127" data-attributes="member: 13556">So true, Dave.  With a DX sensor, you are really cropping every image when compared to a full frame sensor.   The 1.5 focal length multiplier is really a marketing/sales ploy.  That's why you hear about it when  discussing long focal lengths and telephoto lenses, but not so much when talking about wide-angle lenses.  I mean, how good does it sound to say that a camera turns a higher-priced wide angle lens into a normal lens.Where it can make a difference is when enlarging the image.  Theoretically, a DX sensor image can be enlarged by a larger factor than an FX sensor image, if both have the same number of photo receptors (pixels).</blockquote>