I have a question about DX lens cropping and I hardly know how to ask it.
For 40 years I shot 35mm film and recognized that a 50mm prime offered the best real life reproduction of what my eyes saw, without the "distortion" that a wide angle lens or telephoto lens brings.
With my D5100 I often use my 18-55mm kit lens. If I wish to achieve the same "real life", distortion-free view with my kit lens, what would I set it at? 33mm in view of its 1.5 crop factor? Leave it at 50mm?
I'm thinking that perhaps the crop factor has nothing to do with the distortion-free realism of an image and that the 50mm setting continues to reign. It looks that way in my photos.
(For the record, I enjoy wide angle and telephoto shots too!) I apologize for my poor wording here. Thanks y'all.
Sandpatch
For 40 years I shot 35mm film and recognized that a 50mm prime offered the best real life reproduction of what my eyes saw, without the "distortion" that a wide angle lens or telephoto lens brings.
With my D5100 I often use my 18-55mm kit lens. If I wish to achieve the same "real life", distortion-free view with my kit lens, what would I set it at? 33mm in view of its 1.5 crop factor? Leave it at 50mm?
I'm thinking that perhaps the crop factor has nothing to do with the distortion-free realism of an image and that the 50mm setting continues to reign. It looks that way in my photos.
(For the record, I enjoy wide angle and telephoto shots too!) I apologize for my poor wording here. Thanks y'all.
Sandpatch