09-07-2019, 09:21 AM
Wim, I'm fully with you.
I don't know why would anyone get a useful information out of this constant blahhh about equivalencing. It's like going out, saying "it feels a bit chilly" and looking at the temperature scale. 10°C, alright, we have a number. I will not be able to pre-feel the temperature better next time when one adds "that's equivalent to 50°F".
I say, none of us would be able to look at a scene, pre-visualize the frame and then grabs a 173 mm lens, because that's what's needed. Like Rover put it one day "da wide and da wider" or something like that.
Or go somewhere and know in advance "the tree will be 16.87 m tall, I need 0.8 m Air above and my own standpoint need to be at 3.67 m to get 4 m grass in front of the tree. Now a bit triangulation or some vector-analysis and I know, I can get away with a 16 mm lens on an APS-C, but oopsy, I only have a GFX 50 and the frame proportion is different (like in µ 4/3, that's what makes this equivalencurbation extra stupid), so I start the calculation again. before I pack my bag, before I go there with my ladder and my 4 m high tripod.
All this math is entirely useless when I need to know which lens to take in advance. You learnt it, maybe very hard, BC, and now you pop up at nearly each occasion to say "it's equivalent to 50°F" as if one would care and you start discussions we continuously had for like a billion times.
I simply didn't figure out until today, what's in for you? Except getting everybody to walk away from a discussion about a 10× zoom from Canon?
I don't know why would anyone get a useful information out of this constant blahhh about equivalencing. It's like going out, saying "it feels a bit chilly" and looking at the temperature scale. 10°C, alright, we have a number. I will not be able to pre-feel the temperature better next time when one adds "that's equivalent to 50°F".
I say, none of us would be able to look at a scene, pre-visualize the frame and then grabs a 173 mm lens, because that's what's needed. Like Rover put it one day "da wide and da wider" or something like that.
Or go somewhere and know in advance "the tree will be 16.87 m tall, I need 0.8 m Air above and my own standpoint need to be at 3.67 m to get 4 m grass in front of the tree. Now a bit triangulation or some vector-analysis and I know, I can get away with a 16 mm lens on an APS-C, but oopsy, I only have a GFX 50 and the frame proportion is different (like in µ 4/3, that's what makes this equivalencurbation extra stupid), so I start the calculation again. before I pack my bag, before I go there with my ladder and my 4 m high tripod.
All this math is entirely useless when I need to know which lens to take in advance. You learnt it, maybe very hard, BC, and now you pop up at nearly each occasion to say "it's equivalent to 50°F" as if one would care and you start discussions we continuously had for like a billion times.
I simply didn't figure out until today, what's in for you? Except getting everybody to walk away from a discussion about a 10× zoom from Canon?