Frank Filippone <red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is this? I do understand angle of view, but AV-Something? Is > Something = Degrees? So AV-5 is angle of view of 5 degrees? Yup. > OK, so we convince the world to insist on angle of view, Then we need to go > back and tell them what the angle of view was on their film cameras....... we don't have to convince anyone, it's a nomenclature we can use and if it makes sense to anyone else they might start using it too. > It would have been a lot smarter, but I think it is too late already...... > the flywheel is already in motion....... you may be right, we won't know for certain unless we give it a try. For a 35mm film camera: 35mm lens = AV-64 50mm lens = AV-45 60mm lens = AV-40 80mm lens = AV-29 90mm lens = AV-27 100mm lens = AV-22.5 180mm lens = AV-14 200mm lens = AV-12.5 250mm lens = AV-10 280mm lens = AV-8.8 400mm lens = AV-6 560mm lens = AV-4.4 For a smaller format, divide the above AV values by the crop factor, i.e., for the 60mm Macro-Elmarit-R on the DMR the AV is 40/1.37 = about 29 Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/