What is Crop Factor? Crop factor is one of the most useful concepts in modern photography, and one of the most consistently ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

We examine why and when sensor crop factors should be considered when you’re shooting with the camera hand-held in low light levels. Shooting in low light levels requires a good understanding of the ...

Most consumer point and shoot digital cameras say something like, "5x optical zoom," or "9x optical zoom" on the box. But, when you move up to micro-4/3s and SLRs, you lose that. It makes sense - the ...

If you purchased your digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) as part of a kit, you already have a basic lens that takes pretty good pictures. However, part of the attraction of this type of camera is that ...

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 ...

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 ...