Ludwig
10-22-2006, 10:23 PM
I was researching online about lens and I came across this article,
"Anyhow, here's what happens with this magnification factor. Let's say you have a 200mm lens. If your camera has a mag factor of 1.5x that means you take the focal length of the lens—200—and multiply it by 1.5. In this case, your 200mm is now equivalent to a 300mm. Cool!
Now the bad news ,If you like taking wide-angle shots, this works against you. For example, that 24mm lens you liked so much on your 35mm camera now looks like a 36mm lens (gasp)! In order to get back to 24, you'd need to fork over lots of dead presidents for a 16mm lens! That pain you just felt was from your wallet. "
So I understand that if the e-500 has a magnification of 0.9 and times by 200mm would be 180mm so thats bad right?. Now the wide angle len with the e-500 lens kit is 14-45mm. With the magnicfication of 0.9 x 14 = 12.6, so in this case you have a shorter range telephoto len and a wider wide angle len?
thanks
"Anyhow, here's what happens with this magnification factor. Let's say you have a 200mm lens. If your camera has a mag factor of 1.5x that means you take the focal length of the lens—200—and multiply it by 1.5. In this case, your 200mm is now equivalent to a 300mm. Cool!
Now the bad news ,If you like taking wide-angle shots, this works against you. For example, that 24mm lens you liked so much on your 35mm camera now looks like a 36mm lens (gasp)! In order to get back to 24, you'd need to fork over lots of dead presidents for a 16mm lens! That pain you just felt was from your wallet. "
So I understand that if the e-500 has a magnification of 0.9 and times by 200mm would be 180mm so thats bad right?. Now the wide angle len with the e-500 lens kit is 14-45mm. With the magnicfication of 0.9 x 14 = 12.6, so in this case you have a shorter range telephoto len and a wider wide angle len?
thanks