What it frames
The Leica M EV1 with the Leica Tri-Elmar-M 16-18-21mm f/4 ASPH, over an 8.5 m tree and a 1.75 m person, with hills behind. 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.
16mm on the Leica M EV1 frames 45 m × 30 m at 20 m: like 16mm on full frame, 97° across.
The numbers
- Frame at 20 m45 m × 30 m
- Full-frame equivalent16mm
- Angle of view97° × 74°, 107° diagonal
- Depth of field at f/42 m to infinity (to infinity)
- Depth of field at f/81.05 m to infinity (to infinity)
- Hyperfocal at f/42.23 m
- Hyperfocal at f/81.13 m
- Circle of confusion0.029 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.