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Sensor coverage requirements for lenses

Sensor coverage requirements for lenses

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Sensor coverage requirements for lenses

- As you choose a prime lens, it's important that it can adequately cover the sensor. For example, we have two different bodies here from Canon. One is a 7D and the other is a 5D. - [Jim] 5D Mark 3. - And so similar in name, but very different in function, right? Big differences here between the sensors. - 5D Mark 3 is known for its full frame sensor. If you're going for that shallow depth of field that you love with wide open aperture prime lenses, this is gonna make that even more intense, and then the 70, right, is APSC or crop sensor mode. - But because they use the same mount, we could actually take your 50 millimeter lens and put it on this body, I'll trade you there, there we go, and so it fits fine, but it's no longer gonna behave as a 50 millimeter lens. It's gonna look a little different, right? - Right, so there's a crop factor, a multiplcation of 1.6x, so your 50 millimeter now will be 75, 80, and that's the same thing in the cinema world with the C300, which they don't…

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