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Old 10-12-2006, 09:38 PM  
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ok... i thought this was going to be easy then reallized i've been shooting too long. But i'll try anyway.

Full Frame means that the image sensor in the camera (which takes normal 35mm lenses) is actually 35mm diagonally measured. Most of the early single lens reflex digital cameras came out with a smaller chip and this greatly affected the field of view of the lenses.

My 10d was so bad that a 14mm fisheye, which is a really extreme wide angle was equivalent in field of view to a 24mm on a real 35mm format camera.

Full frame doesn't change the fact that the format is still horizontal and unless you back way off from a subject you will still need to turn the camera to vertical position to get them to fill the frame.

After reading this... i don't know if it's really any help.
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