Could someone please educate me regarding the difference between
"38mm equivalent" and ""35mm equivalent" on a digital camera?
There is SO much I need to learn! Thanks.
I am not sure if your question is specifically refering to the difference between 35 vs 38 .... or to the word "equivalent".
It appears your question refers to the 35 vs 38 issue ...and the answer there is that a difference may be "noticable" ... but NOT "SIGNIFICANT".
I would suggest that you need at least 28mm(equivalent) to be "significant" ... and that is not near wide enough for my needs.
I will further suggest that for a "regular" use camera .. I do think you NEED at least 28mm and I am dismayed that so FEW cameras offer this range.
I mean .. a super-long telephoto is great .. and irreplacable sometimes ... BUT even in a very COMMON situation like a "party" in a HOME, (small-room), a very common/normal request is to shoot "everyone" there ... a 35/38 mm is almost never wide enough to get very many people. (28mm is "usually" sufficient)
NOW: if you question did indeed refer to the word "equivalent" ... that simply recognizes that sensor sizes VARY on all digial cameras; and thus each one requires a different true mm to produce a given result. It is WORTHLESS to give a true mm without also defining the sensor size ... and then very few people would know how to calculate a meangful result.
But since 35mm film was a constant size, (with a couple of exceptions), for many years ... and virtually any photographer does indeed know the specific image size/perspective that will be produced by a lens they probably owned/used ... it serves as a reliable reference point.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks for reading .... JoePhoto
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