01-13-2014, 07:01 AM
Quote:I'm not sure about the need for stupid xx.5mm increment marketing focal lengths. Couldn't they just call it a 43mm lens (both Voigtlander and Leica)?The reason they call them 42.5mm lenses is to make totally clear that they are 85mm FF equivalents.... Traditional 135 format focal lengths are the "standard".
This marketing number is surely more precise than the nominal (as-designed or as-computed) and actual (as-manufactured) focal lengths.
It could be acceptable on small-format wide-angle lenses where each 1mm translates to a more significant difference of field-of-view, but on a 43mm lens, it's only a 1% difference!