What it frames
The Fujifilm X-T30 III with the Fujifilm XF 500mm f/5.6 R LM OIS WR, over a 30 cm bird on a 1 m fence post. Everything is drawn to scale: the solid frame is what the camera takes in, the dashed ones are 24, 50 and 135mm on full frame from the same spot. Its APS-C sensor (23.5 x 15.6 mm) has a crop factor of 1.5, so the dashed frames are marked with the focal length that gives the same view on it.
500mm on the Fujifilm X-T30 III frames 70 cm × 47 cm at 15 m: like 750mm on full frame, 2.7° across.
The numbers
- Frame at 15 m70 cm × 47 cm
- Full-frame equivalent750mm
- Angle of view2.7° × 1.8°, 3.2° diagonal
- Depth of field at f/5.614.9 m to 15.1 m (18 cm)
- Depth of field at f/814.9 m to 15.1 m (26 cm)
- Hyperfocal at f/5.62375 m
- Hyperfocal at f/81662 m
- Circle of confusion0.019 mm
How it is worked out
The frame at a distance is distance × sensor size ÷ focal length, across and up; the angle of view is 2 × atan(sensor size ÷ (2 × focal length)). Depth of field uses the thin-lens formulas: the hyperfocal distance H = f² ÷ (N × c) + f, the near limit s(H − f) ÷ (H + s − 2f) and the far limit s(H − f) ÷ (H − s), sharp to infinity from H on, with a circle of confusion c of the sensor diagonal ÷ 1500 and, on a zoom whose aperture changes, the maximum aperture taken linearly between its ends. These are for a rectilinear lens; a fisheye takes in more. Ask for this page with Accept: application/json for the numbers alone.