Re: Lenses FF/APSC
I'm not sure you can blame Canon or the other DSLR makers for the effective or equivalent focal length concept - which in itself is actually a reasonable way to compare cameras of differing sensor size. Digital compacts cameras became widely popular before the DSLR explosion and I think you'll find it was those that are the real source of the concept. Trying to get the public to equate the tiny focal lengths of the small sensors used to anything they were used to, usually a 35mm compact or SLR, was always going to be difficult, particularly as there was such a wide variety of sizes in use, that it was probably considered much easier to equate everything to 35mm and take it from there - much easier to compare models when their lens specs are all quoted to the same standard.
I also find it hard to understand why people appear to find the concept so difficult. Sometimes I suspect they're being deliberately stupid or obtuse...
I'm not sure you can blame Canon or the other DSLR makers for the effective or equivalent focal length concept - which in itself is actually a reasonable way to compare cameras of differing sensor size. Digital compacts cameras became widely popular before the DSLR explosion and I think you'll find it was those that are the real source of the concept. Trying to get the public to equate the tiny focal lengths of the small sensors used to anything they were used to, usually a 35mm compact or SLR, was always going to be difficult, particularly as there was such a wide variety of sizes in use, that it was probably considered much easier to equate everything to 35mm and take it from there - much easier to compare models when their lens specs are all quoted to the same standard.
I also find it hard to understand why people appear to find the concept so difficult. Sometimes I suspect they're being deliberately stupid or obtuse...
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