new Metabones adapter gives nex crop factor higher-quality full frame look.

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Hye
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Re: new Metabones adapter gives nex crop factor higher-quality full frame look.
In reply to El Matadurr, 4 months ago

El Matadurr wrote:

Taking a supposed 10mm lens with a 20mm front element, the f-stop would be f/2. If this adapter reduces the focal length, so now the 10mm lens is now 5mm (or whatever the value is), we get 20mm/5mm, or f/4.

You're a slightly off (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number#Notation):

f-number is focal length / aperture diameter, but the f-number is expressed as f/X, where X is the previously calculated ratio.

So in your example, with focal length 10mm, and diameter 20mm, the f-number is 1/2, which would be expressed as f/0.5, not f/2.

Decreasing the focal length to 5mm then gives you f/0.25, not f/4.

HTH

Edited 4 months ago by Hye
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