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OK, I'll check this for myself tonight on my 2 bodies, but was reading something recently which got me thinking.
I'm sort of transitioning between Micro Four Thirds to Sony APS-C as my smaller everyday camera set up. The body size of the A6700 being smaller and lighter than the OM-1 along with lenses being typically similar size and weight, have made it an attractive option for me. However, aside from a very few expensive lenses, most "standard" zoom lenses for E-Mount APS-C seem to start from 18mm (27mm FF equivalent), whereas a lot of M4/3 lenses start at 12mm (24mm FF equivalent).
However in the article I was reading it was suggesting that using a M4/3 camera in 3:2 aspect ratio (which I've always tended to do as I prefer this to the default 4:3 aspect), that the effective field of view becomes a little tighter, and that the 24mm effective field of view in 3:2 mode ends up being more like a 26mm lens not 24mm, meaning I'd only be actually giving up 1mm of width from using the 18mm lenses on Sony E-Mount (assuming the Sony lenses are a genuine 18mm focal length). My brain is struggling to understand this as I thought that when a micro four thirds camera (say for instance my OM-1) shoots in 3:2 from the native 4:3, it still uses the same width of the sensor but just crops top and bottom, but that the field of view should still be a 24mm equivalent ?
Anyone with a better understanding of this able to comment and explain this please ?
I'm sort of transitioning between Micro Four Thirds to Sony APS-C as my smaller everyday camera set up. The body size of the A6700 being smaller and lighter than the OM-1 along with lenses being typically similar size and weight, have made it an attractive option for me. However, aside from a very few expensive lenses, most "standard" zoom lenses for E-Mount APS-C seem to start from 18mm (27mm FF equivalent), whereas a lot of M4/3 lenses start at 12mm (24mm FF equivalent).
However in the article I was reading it was suggesting that using a M4/3 camera in 3:2 aspect ratio (which I've always tended to do as I prefer this to the default 4:3 aspect), that the effective field of view becomes a little tighter, and that the 24mm effective field of view in 3:2 mode ends up being more like a 26mm lens not 24mm, meaning I'd only be actually giving up 1mm of width from using the 18mm lenses on Sony E-Mount (assuming the Sony lenses are a genuine 18mm focal length). My brain is struggling to understand this as I thought that when a micro four thirds camera (say for instance my OM-1) shoots in 3:2 from the native 4:3, it still uses the same width of the sensor but just crops top and bottom, but that the field of view should still be a 24mm equivalent ?
Anyone with a better understanding of this able to comment and explain this please ?