So you know that last week, I got my Canon 5D. And it was my very first time even touching a full frame camera. I loaded up the battery, popped in a memory card and….GASP! What a beautiful vision I saw through the viewfinder. Suddenly, my 50mm lens {which I couldn’t use in my teeny living room} has been transformed into the perfect lens for a small space!
You see, on a cropped sensor camera (if it’s not full frame, it’s ‘cropped’), what you see through the viewfinder, and capture when you press the shutter, is an image that is sort of cropped before it’s even been taken. The sensor isn’t capable of taking in the entire image. Kind of like standing in a tunnel. So when you look through a 50mm lens, you’re not actually seeing the full view capability of that lens. So check it out:
