Digital Camera World

PART 5 ANGLE OF VIEW

1 THE CROP FACTOR

SLRs have either a 36 x 24mm full-frame sensor – so called because it matches the size of 35mm film – or a 23.6 x 15.7mm APS-C format sensor. APS-C-based DSLRs are also known as ‘crop-sensor’ cameras. This is because the APS-C sensor only captures

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