This is true. I've worked with a DP that was always telling me the lens
in 35mm equiv even though we were shooting in HD. I had to constantly
remind him that I didn't care about 35mm equiv. I want the exact focal
length because my conversion depends on it.
Andy Jones wrote:
Yeah, you'll never ever encounter the vast majority of the ones on
wikipedia. From what I understand, a lot of stuff from the era before
digital intermediates was shot on academy, and these days a lot more
stuff is shot full aperture, .98x.735, then cropped to a particular
aspect ratio. Another thing to be aware of is that with the smaller
format digital cameras, lens information is sometimes talked about in
terms of 35mm film, because that's what everyone knows. So, if
someone is talking about a 35 mm lens, they're often talking about a
35mm lens on 35mm film, not a 35mm telephoto lens for a digital
camera. In fact, exif headers on digital camera images sometimes
include hypothetical 35mm lens info as one of the fields. It really
sort of depends on who you're talking to, what their background is,
and whether they're talking about the shot in the abstract or sitting
with a camera in-hand, ready to shoot the actual footage.
- Andy
Marc Bourbonnais wrote:
If you prefer a trimmed down version a little closer to what formats
you really need:
http://www.panavision.com/aspect_ratio.php
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3D TD
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Laffey" <joe(at)laffey.tv>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: real world camera
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Andy Jones wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_formats
Man, I must have googled poorly to not find that one!
Thanks!
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