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Question What is the focal length of typical wide-angle lenses?
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For a full frame body (5D etc) they start at 35mm and go lower down to 17mm for an ultrawide.

For 1.6 crop body (Rebel, 50D etc) they start around 24mm and go down to about 10mm for an ultra wide..
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Old 05-25-2010, 02:45 PM
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And even to 4.5 mm for super-duper-ultra-wide fisheye
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