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Stewart Godfrey (backtonikon64) on November 6, 2024 in A Visit to the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula

Please note, this is a table of rectilinear values, i.e. values for rectilinear lenses; fisheye field of view is a different beast.

For a 55mm lens on a APS-C/DX sensor format body, the field of view would thus be 24.0 degrees horizontally, 16.1 degrees vertically and 28.7 degrees diagonally.

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How to use the table: Hopefully the table is quite self-explanatory, but let's say you are looking for the Field-of-view of a 50mm lens mounted on an FX body. In the column "Lens Focal Length", go down to the row marked "50mm" and then over to the green area marked "35mm & FX format (1)". The FOV for a 50mm lens would be 39.6 degrees horizontally and 27.0 degrees vertically. Diagonally, the FOV is 46.8 degrees.

Panorama made of 12 vertical shots stitched together Nikon D70 with 12-24mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S DX Nikkor @ 12mm, f/7.1, 1/60s With hand-held SB-800 on SC-29 cable, TTL|BL flash setting

The values for Field of View (FOV), sometimes sloppily referred to as "lens view" or better, "angle of view", come up frequently enough at the forums that I thought a list might be helpful for quick reference.