From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses
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Words about focal length - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses
Words about focal length
If you've watched my Foundations of Photography: Lenses course, well actually, I'd like to say thank you. But in addition to that, you should already be familiar with the idea of 35 mm equivalency. Now, if you haven't watched it, if you don't know that term, then you're going to need to take a look at that course before you go on here. In this course, I will be shooting with a Canon 5D Mark III, which has a full-frame sensor. As such, when I speak of focal lengths and field of view, I'm talking about field of view that is equivalent to a 35-mm film camera. Therefore, from my camera, a 50-mm lens is considered normal, anything longer is considered telephoto, and anything shorter is considered wide angle. If you're shooting with a camera that has a sensor that's smaller than a piece of 35-mm film, then you'll need a lens with a different focal length to get the equivalent field of view to what I'm getting on my camera. Now these smaller sensors are generally referred to as Cropped…
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