Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/15

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Olympus micro 4/3 preview
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:54:45 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
 
Frank Filippone wrote:

>Given that a 4/3 sensor is ( I think) 1/4 the size of 35mm film, the crop
>factor would be .... 4 ?????

1/4 the surface area, about 1/2 the diagonal so a 35mm lens on a 4/3 camera 
has the field of view of a 70mm lens on a 24x36mm camera.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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