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Old 09-23-2011, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by For the love of light View Post
I don't know about Canon but with Nikon there is a catch to it. The 50mm prime (both 1.8 and 1.4) are FX format lenses so when used with an APS-C (Nikon D 300 S and lower) you get a cropped view of 75 mm. So not so much for landscapes but yeah, quite solid for portraits.
DX or FX lenses on a DX body will have the same field of view.
So a DX 80mm lens and an FX 80mm lens will both have a crop factor on a DX body.
So your statement is true that the 50 will have a fov like 75mm...but that is a function of the body not the lens. If they made a DX 50 it would also have a fov like 75mm
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