What Is A 35 Millimeter Camera?

http://www.dkimages.co​m …previews/975/40​020174.JPG

that's a good image of a 35mm camera (a rather old one) with film loaded. Describing a camera as "35mm" distinguishes it from a camera that uses other film formats, such as medium or large format (which use film that is typically 6cm x 4.5cm, 6cm x 6cm or 6cm x 7cm or some variation thereon for medium, and film that is 4" x 5 " for large format). The Kodak product number for 35mm film is 135, for medium format it's 120. These numbers are often used to indicate the size of the film you're looking for.

This relates to digital in several ways. A 35mm dSLR is a digital SLR based upon a 35mm camera system. It uses a sensor that is at the largest the size of a piece of 35mm film, and work with 35mm film lenses. (For example, the Canon EOS system compromises a collection of lenses as well as both film and digital 35mm based cameras. )

A medium format digital camera is a camera that uses a medium format system as a basis, using much larger sensors and lenses. (and allowing for much higher (up into the 30 megapixel and higher range) resolution.

A good article about 35mm film can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/135_film.

There's also a good article on SLRs here: http://en.wikipedia.or​g …Single-lens_reflex_camera.

I still feel old.

I think I know how my forefathers felt when transgressing from spears to arrows, to matchlock, to flintlock to percussion cap to metallic cartridge.

HAHAHA

What's pulse dialing?

proxes wrote in post #4173396
What's pulse dialing?

And Princess phones...

JWright wrote in post #4173410
And Princess phones...

I'm in IT, and I still use that term.

Does anyone else say A...errh...ISO?

I always say ISO, but I know what ASA is. Other than what my dad was in while in the Army.

Dialing? What's wrong with turning the handle, picking up the reciever, and asking for the number you want to call?

When I was a kid I would pick up the phone, wait for the operator to answer, give her the number I wanted to call, and she would make the connection. My home phone number was 35 and my father's business was 450. My town was so small that when I was very young I could pick up the phone and tell the operator "I want to talk to my Daddy" and she would connect me. The phone didn't even have a dial on it but it didn't have a crank either.

Back to the film sizes, no one mentioned everyone's favorite the 110(I think that was it). It had a negative not much bigger than the sensors in today's PnS cameras.

montreal wrote in post #4172441
No, 35mm refers to the width of the film frame. The sensors on FF cameras are (roughly) 35mm wide.

Including the spcket holes, the entrire width is 35mm. The FF sensor is only 24MM wide X 36MM long. Same as the Exposed section of the film.

kcbrown wrote in post #4173348
A good article about 35mm film can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/135_film.

There's also a good article on SLRs here: http://en.wikipedia.or​g …ingle-lens_reflex_camera.

A very good explination.

I think that perhaps the original post was trying to understand the relationship between a 35 mm camera and the variouls focal length lenses that are available for such cameras.

Why doesn't someone explain why the 50 mm lens is considered the "normal" lens for a 35 mm camera? That would certainly go a long way towards answering his real curiosity.

Robert_Lay wrote in post #4173964
I think that perhaps the original post was trying to understand the relationship between a 35 mm camera and the variouls focal length lenses that are available for such cameras.

Why doesn't someone explain why the 50 mm lens is considered the "normal" lens for a 35 mm camera? That would certainly go a long way towards answering his real curiosity.

50mm is the "Field of View" that best replicates what we see with the human eye. Put a 50mm lens on your camera and look thru the viewfinder, and then look at the same object normally. Almost exact.

I dont completely understand the crop factor. Some people refer to it like its has a teleconverter effect (extra zoom) where others say that it is no zoom, but the image is cropped.

Im leaning more towards the 2nd opinion...

Robert_Lay wrote in post #4173964
I think that perhaps the original post was trying to understand the relationship between a 35 mm camera and the variouls focal length lenses that are available for such cameras.

Why doesn't someone explain why the 50 mm lens is considered the "normal" lens for a 35 mm camera? That would certainly go a long way towards answering his real curiosity.

Well, then, why didn't you.

Personally, I though a cogent explanation of why it's 50mm and not 43mm would confuse the issue.