Nikon 1 10mm/27 produces wider image than Oly 12mm/24...Why?

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Why would an image taken with the Nikon V1 with 10mm prime that has a 2.7x crop factor (27mm Equivalent) produce a significantly wider field of view image than the 12mm 2x crop factor (24mm Equivalent) Olympus mounted on an EP3? It actually looks like the image from the Nikon is at 24mm and the EP3 is at 35mm: a big difference for sure!
 
Why would an image taken with the Nikon V1 with 10mm prime that has a 2.7x crop factor (27mm Equivalent) produce a significantly wider field of view image than the 12mm 2x crop factor (24mm Equivalent) Olympus mounted on an EP3? It actually looks like the image from the Nikon is at 24mm and the EP3 is at 35mm: a big difference for sure!
Where are these images? Were they taken at close distance? Different lenses behave differently as they are focused closer and their effective focal lengths change.
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Leonard Migliore
 
With seeing the images we can't even begin to ponder the question. And unless the images are of the same scene, shot from exactly the same place, you can't do a meaningful comparison.
 
Why would an image taken with the Nikon V1 with 10mm prime that has a 2.7x crop factor (27mm Equivalent) produce a significantly wider field of view image than the 12mm 2x crop factor (24mm Equivalent) Olympus mounted on an EP3? It actually looks like the image from the Nikon is at 24mm and the EP3 is at 35mm: a big difference for sure!
The V1 shoot 3:2 and the EP3 shoot 4:3 images, so a V1 image will have a wider horizontal FoV for the same equivalent FL (same diagonal FoV), but it sounds a bit strange that 10mm on V1 should have a much wider FoV than 12mm on EP3..
 
Steen, I am assuming it is the aspect ratio. Will post some shots but clearly the 10mm on V1 produces a much wider photograph than the 12mm on the Oly. Both prime lenses.
 
Steen, I am assuming it is the aspect ratio. Will post some shots but clearly the 10mm on V1 produces a much wider photograph than the 12mm on the Oly. Both prime lenses.
According to DPR, the V1 sensor is 13.2mm wide and the EP3's sensor is 17.3mm wide. So the V1's width is 13.2/10 or 1.3X the focal length and the Oly's width is 17.3/12 or 1.44X the focal length. So, if indeed the Nikon is wider something else is going on.
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Leonard Migliore
 
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The V1 shoot 3:2 and the EP3 shoot 4:3 images, so a V1 image will have a wider horizontal FoV for the same equivalent FL (same diagonal FoV), but it sounds a bit strange that 10mm on V1 should have a much wider FoV than 12mm on EP3..
Doing some RAW comparisons might be worthwhile. DPR's preview of the V1 noted that the lens used was designed to correct distortion to a fairly high degree, so in-camera correction doesn't have much left to correct. This correction results in cropped images in JPEGs, so comparing RAW, uncorrected images from both cameras will show what their sensors actually see. If there's still a big difference, well . . . Oh, and the photos should be focused on very distant objects to eliminate the effects of focus breathing, if that's affecting the comparisons, since that can produce significantly shorter focal lengths than expected when the focus is closer to the camera.
 
What do you mean by a wider image? Are the images both the same dimensional height with the Nikon being dimensionally wider than the Olympus? If that's the case then it's the aspect ratio for sure.

Or does the Nikon appear to capture more of the subject in the frame than the Olympus? and if so, is it only along the horizontal plane that there is more, but not vertically?

Is the aspect ration of the cameras set to something other than their native setting? I know on the Olympus this can be changed.

Either way, it's not an apples to apples comparison...especially with so many variables at play.
 

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