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The Leica SL3-P with the TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8 Fisheye, 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.

11mm on the Leica SL3-P frames 65.5 m × 43.6 m at 20 m: like 11mm on full frame, 117° across.

24mm eq.50mm eq.135mm eq.11mm · like 11mm on full frame65.5 m × 43.6 m at 20 m
The subject is 20 m away; things behind it are drawn smaller, as the camera sees them.
Inside the frame: the picture you would get.

The numbers

  • Frame at 20 m65.5 m × 43.6 m
  • Full-frame equivalent11mm
  • Angle of view117° × 95°, 126° diagonal
  • Depth of field at f/2.81.39 m to infinity (to infinity)
  • Depth of field at f/851 cm to infinity (to infinity)
  • Hyperfocal at f/2.81.51 m
  • Hyperfocal at f/854 cm
  • Circle of confusion0.029 mm
f/2.81.39 m to infinity (everything to infinity)f/851 cm to infinity (everything to infinity)camerasubject, 20 m40 m
Depth of field: what is acceptably sharp, wide open and at f/8, focused on the subject.

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.