What is a 70 200 on a crop sensor?

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If you have a zoom lens on a smaller-than-full-frame camera, you can figure out the effective focal-length equivalent by multiplying both focal length numbers by the crop factor. For example, a 70-200mm lens becomes a virtual 105-300mm lens on a 1.5x APS-C sensor. This gives it a crop factor of 0.78x.

What is a 70-200mm lens good for?

A 70-200mm lens is a versatile optic with uses for wildlife, wedding, sports, landscape and even portrait photographers. The option of having short, medium and long telephoto focal lengths in one lens with a fast constant aperture gives photographers so many creative options.

Is 70 200 good for landscape?

Landscapes. Believe it or not, a 70-200 can be very useful for landscape photography. Most people use wide-angle lenses for this; however, if the subject is a moderate distance away, a wide-angle lens leaves a lot of empty space around the edges. The following shot was taken with a 70-200.

What is a 24 70 on a crop sensor?

24-70mm on a 1.6 crop camera will give you the same field of view as 38-112 on a full frame camera. 24-70mm on a full frame camera will give you the same field of view as 15-44mm on a 1.6 crop frame camera, so 17-52 on the crop wouldn’t be quite as wide as that.

Why is 70 200 so popular?

Perfected over the last 30 years, 70-200mm lenses tend to have excellent edge-to-edge sharpness, both wide-open and stopped down. They fend off chromatic aberration and flare while producing stunning, sharp, contrasty images shoot after shoot.

Is a 70 200 lens worth it?

A 70-200mm f/2.8 lens isn’t always a necessity, but it can make a big difference if your needs aren’t met by other gear. They’re heavy and expensive, but the results can be worth it as long as you know why you want one and what you plan on using it for.

Do I need 70-200?

A 70-200mm lens fills the need for an occasional sports lens perfectly. If you shoot a lot of indoor sports, you’ll need the speed of the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. You’ll need a fast (wide) aperture of the f/2.8 lens to shoot at shutter speeds fast enough to stop action.

Is the Canon RF 70-200 worth it?

Most big-name 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses are great performers optically, the current Canon EF model is excellent, and few serious photographers would accept anything less. Despite the RF lens’ reduced size and weight, it is optically outstanding, superior to its predecessor.

Do I need a 70 300 lens?

A 70-300 mm lens is a medium telephoto lens often employed for taking photos of wildlife, sporting events, and astronomical subjects such as the moon, planets, and stars. It is also recommended for travel photography, street photography, and other candid occasions.

Can a full frame lens be used on a crop sensor?

This gives you an extra magnification. To work out an equivalent focal length for a full frame lens on a crop sensor camera you have to multiply the lens’s focal length by 1.6, so the EF 75-300 mm effectively becomes a 120-480 mm lens on a crop sensor.

What is the crop factor of a 200mm lens?

12.3 degrees is what the 200mm lens gives you on its native format, which is called 135-format. The crop factor of your camera is 61.8% because that is how much of the imaging area of the native format of the lens has been “lost” by using it on your T3i. It’s not bad or good.

Can a canon 70-200mm be used as a full frame lens?

While yes you can use the same lens on a full frame body and crop to where you have the same FOV you could also take the same image with a 24mm and crop to the FOV of a 300mm. I use a 70-200 f4 L IS and a Sigma 120-300 f2.8 HSM OS on my 7D.

Why are 70-200mm equivalents to 50-150mm?

The reason is that in order to account for the crop factor, you also have to multiple the aperture by the crop factor. A 50-150mm F2.8 lens on a cropped sensor is effectively a 70-200mm F4 lens on a full frame and that’s why they have similar weights and prices.