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ity or file size, it does affect lens focal length. With sensors
smaller than 24x36mm, lenses get effectively longer.
This is not usually a problem where telephotos and
telephoto zooms are concerned, but when your expensive
wide-angles or wide-angle zooms become significantly less
wide on the digital camera body, it can be somewhat frustrating.
For example, with a 1.4x focal-length factor, a
17mm lens becomes a 24mm lens.
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ABOVE—Wife of J.B. Sallee, DeEtte made this fantastic
image, entitled Joy Ride, with a Nikon D2X and
80–200mm f/2.8 lens at the 175mm setting. The digital sensors
in today’s DSLRs are so incredibly sharp that you almost
need to apply some minor diffusion to every image. LEFT—
Joe Photo made this delightful image with his Nikon D1X
and 17mm f/2.8 lens at 1/6000 second at f/2.8. Because of the
focal length factor, the 17mm lens functioned like a 25mm
wide-angle.
There are several DSLRs from Canon with full-size
24x36mm imaging chips, meaning that there is no change
to your lenses’ effective focal lengths. Camera manufacturers
who have committed to chip sizes that are smaller
than full-frame 35mm have started to introduce lens lines
specifically designed for digital imaging. The circle of coverage
(the area of focused light falling on the film plane or
digital-imaging chip) is smaller and more collimated to