The ratio of the focal length of a digital camera lens to a 35mm still camera lens. The crop factor is used by experienced photographers, who want to know the field of view of a lens on a digital ...

I grew up with film SLRs (full-frame, of course), and the rule of thumb was "the slowest shutter speed you should try to hand-hold is 1/your lens focal length in mm." e.g. 1/50 sec for a 50 mm lens.

Photographers and Raspberry Pi enthusiasts interested in learning more details about the new high-quality Raspberry Pi camera lenses may be interested in a new guide created by Dylan Herrada over at ...

Photography is full of fancy terms and complicated science, but we are here to explain it all to you in simpler terms. Today we are focusing on focal length. This term gets thrown around often, ...

The following lesson was created by Vimeo for its Vimeo Video School. It's used here with permission. Look for a new lesson each week. Crop factor might sound like some sort of agricultural term, but ...

If you’re in the market for an interchangeable lens camera, you’ve probably heard the term “crop factor” thrown about in reference to different formats. Basically, crop factor refers to how the ...

Phil Rhodes shares his view on the use of "crop factor" to discuss focal lengths and the complications it can cause Every so often, I find myself in a conversation about lenses in which one of the ...