Challenge Nifty Fifty 2026 Chat Thread

[Topsy]

At the risk of sounding silly .... as I say I am new to all of this and vie just started taking photography more seriously but what do you mean by this??

"Images taken at the Nifty Fifty focal length on full frame or the equivalent focal length on crop bodies, ie. Canon 1.6 crop body plus 35 prime or 30mm on zoom etc."

The camera I'm using is a Panasonic Lumix FZ82 x60 zoom.

Don't worry about sounding silly I do it all the time and remember there's no such thing as a stupid question.

The Nifty Fifty is what 50mm focal length lenses were called back in the film days for 35mm format cameras which is the same as on Full Frame Sensor digital cameras, however, I believe the sensor in your camers is a 1 2/3 inch sensor which has a Crop factor something like x5.6 so an equivalent lens length on your camera would be around 9mm on your zoom. I do think though the Panasonic camera show the focal lengths in the display as if they are full frame so your display when zoomed would read 50mm and you'd be good to go.

Hope I didn't just add to the confusion............

 

[hottodz]

Don't worry about sounding silly I do it all the time and remember there's no such thing as a stupid question.

The Nifty Fifty is what 50mm focal length lenses were called back in the film days for 35mm format cameras which is the same as on Full Frame Sensor digital cameras, however, I believe the sensor in your camers is a 1 2/3 inch sensor which has a Crop factor something like x5.6 so an equivalent lens length on your camera would be around 9mm on your zoom. I do think though the Panasonic camera show the focal lengths in the display as if they are full frame so your display when zoomed would read 50mm and you'd be good to go.

Hope I didn't just add to the confusion............

Yea I just done a quick google ... and looks like if I zoom in to 50mm and it tells me on the camera when I have hit that mark .... fingers crossed LOL Im going to have a mess around why its quite in my house make the most of getting to know my camera more

 

[LC2]

At the risk of sounding silly .... as I say I am new to all of this and vie just started taking photography more seriously but what do you mean by this??

"Images taken at the Nifty Fifty focal length on full frame or the equivalent focal length on crop bodies, ie. Canon 1.6 crop body plus 35 prime or 30mm on zoom etc."

The camera I'm using is a Panasonic Lumix FZ82 x60 zoom.

If it only shows the real focal length, it's 9mm.
I had to do the same calculation for my TG7 for my April submission - I wanted to use a waterproof camera as I was shooting a water based shot.

 

[skullfunkerry]

At the risk of sounding silly .... as I say I am new to all of this and vie just started taking photography more seriously but what do you mean by this??

"Images taken at the Nifty Fifty focal length on full frame or the equivalent focal length on crop bodies, ie. Canon 1.6 crop body plus 35 prime or 30mm on zoom etc."

The camera I'm using is a Panasonic Lumix FZ82 x60 zoom.

I think the focal length indicated on your camera will be the actual focal length, so you'll want to zoom to 50mm. I think your minimum focal length is 20mm, so you'll be using x2.5 zoom, if you prefer to think of it that way.

The "industry standard" for photography is what's called a full-frame sensor, which is where the field of view is equivalent to a 35mm film camera. So if you're using a full-frame sensor and a 50mm lens, that's equivalent to using a 50mm lens on a 35mm film camera.

My camera has a crop sensor, which means that it's slightly smaller than the sensor on a full-frame camera: if someone with a full-frame camera and I stood next to each other, both with 50mm lenses, and shot the same scene, mine would look more zoomed in, because the smaller sensor on my camera has a tighter field of view. To account for this, you can multiply the focal length by the crop sensor of your particular camera - in my case that's 1.5, so if I use a 35mm lens, my equivalent focal length is (35x1.5) 52.5mm. Not exactly 50mm, but close enough.

I actually started with an FZ82, and I had no idea about any of this, mainly because Panasonic have already done the crop conversion for you, so the focal length the camera is telling you is what the camera is shooting at.
(If you look at the lens front, you'll see it says "3.58 - 215@" - that's the actual focal length of you lens, but the crop factor multiplies that up to 20-1200)

EDIT: several people have beaten me to it, with a lot fewer words as well

 

[hottodz]

I think the focal length indicated on your camera will be the actual focal length, so you'll want to zoom to 50mm. I think your minimum focal length is 20mm, so you'll be using x2.5 zoom, if you prefer to think of it that way.

The "industry standard" for photography is what's called a full-frame sensor, which is where the field of view is equivalent to a 35mm film camera. So if you're using a full-frame sensor and a 50mm lens, that's equivalent to using a 50mm lens on a 35mm film camera.

My camera has a crop sensor, which means that it's slightly smaller than the sensor on a full-frame camera: if someone with a full-frame camera and I stood next to each other, both with 50mm lenses, and shot the same scene, mine would look more zoomed in, because the smaller sensor on my camera has a tighter field of view. To account for this, you can multiply the focal length by the crop sensor of your particular camera - in my case that's 1.5, so if I use a 35mm lens, my equivalent focal length is (35x1.5) 52.5mm. Not exactly 50mm, but close enough.

I actually started with an FZ82, and I had no idea about any of this, mainly because Panasonic have already done the crop conversion for you, so the focal length the camera is telling you is what the camera is shooting at.
(If you look at the lens front, you'll see it says "3.58 - 215@" - that's the actual focal length of you lens, but the crop factor multiplies that up to 20-1200)

EDIT: several people have beaten me to it, with a lot fewer words as well

Thank you so much for this information any information helps when your a newb starting out

 

[swanseamale47]

At the risk of sounding silly .... as I say I am new to all of this and vie just started taking photography more seriously but what do you mean by this??

"Images taken at the Nifty Fifty focal length on full frame or the equivalent focal length on crop bodies, ie. Canon 1.6 crop body plus 35 prime or 30mm on zoom etc."

The camera I'm using is a Panasonic Lumix FZ82 x60 zoom.

I don't have that model but when you zoom in it should show a number on the screen or viewfinder.
You need 50 or nearest.
The 50m is what's called " standard " focal length on a 35mm film camera. Modern full frame digital cameras have a similar size sensor. Crop sensor cameras have smaller sensors and you need to apply a crop factor to those.
Your camera has a small sensor but the number displayed should be the equivalent for your model.