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    Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    I will leave this one to the techies as I'd love to know first, the minimum IC for 6.5X8.5 and also what an equivalent lens to 35mm of say, 115-120mm would be on the format? Is there a way I can calculate a rough estimate of any lens length for 6.5X8.5that would be the equivalent to a lens put on a 35mm camera?

    Thanks all!

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    Re: Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    Standard lens (and thus minimum IC) is about 260mm. For 35mm equivalent divide (or multiply) by 6.2.

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    Re: Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    Do the maths: SQRT(6.5^2 + 8.5^2) = about 10.5 inches, or 260mm.

    Do you want the equivalents based on short side, long side or diagonal?

    Short side - 35mm is a little less than 1 in, 6.5 a little less than 6.5 in (image area): Multiply by 6.5.

    Long side - 1.5 to 8.5 in - multiply by a little less than 6.

    In other words there are no exact equivalents - it all depends on what you want. Other film sizes are worse, except maybe 5x7".

    For whole plate, "six-ish" is a good factor.

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    Re: Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    So basically the Grandagon 115mm is roughly 19mm or so equivalent? Is this right? Seems VERY WIDE I know people have noted a 120 on an 8X10 as being the equivalent of 18mm, but this wouldn't be right if the 115mm and even 120mm are right around 19-20mm on Whole Plate.

    Thanks for the quick and excellent responses.

    One more good one...what would 4X10's image circle (minimum) be and what multiplier/dividing number on it for the equivalent to 35mm?

    It's no wonder why people have these larger "telephoto" lenses that are really not telephoto at all when on a larger format. Thinking of something like a 300-450mm lens on 8X10 and it seems like it's basically a "normal"...

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    Re: Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    4x10 has a normal of 270mm. But the difference in format shapes makes comparing hard.

    For full plate instead of looking at 35mm look at something like 6x7. Or maybe Fuji's 6x8 camera. 35mm is a much better match in shape for 5x7 then any of the squarer formats.

    BTW 300-360mm is considered normal for 8x10.

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    Re: Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    Funny, I just recently finished a focal length interchange chart for 35mm vs. Whole Plate, which shows equivelant FL's in both the horizontal and vertical axis. You can find it here... http://www.fotomancamera.com/technical.asp

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    Re: Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    Quote Originally Posted by Paul Droluk View Post
    Funny, I just recently finished a focal length interchange chart for 35mm vs. Whole Plate, which shows equivelant FL's in both the horizontal and vertical axis. You can find it here... http://www.fotomancamera.com/technical.asp
    Does this perfect coincidence of a post mean I get some free whole plate holders to test out...and give a review for them???

    Thanks a lot Paul. I printed out every chart. It gives me the idea of what backs I want to have on the camera and what lenses I will end up with.

    Thanks also to everyone that has posted. I'm going to use these figures as well though Paul's charts are awefully convenient than me calculating things

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    Re: Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ole Tjugen View Post
    Do the maths: SQRT(6.5^2 + 8.5^2) = about 10.5 inches, or 260mm.

    Do you want the equivalents based on short side, long side or diagonal?

    Short side - 35mm is a little less than 1 in, 6.5 a little less than 6.5 in (image area): Multiply by 6.5.

    Long side - 1.5 to 8.5 in - multiply by a little less than 6.

    In other words there are no exact equivalents - it all depends on what you want. Other film sizes are worse, except maybe 5x7".

    For whole plate, "six-ish" is a good factor.
    Ole,

    I was doing your square root calculation to determine IC per 6.5X8.5, but I come up with a lower number. Square root of 8.5, for example, is 2.9. For 6.5 is 2.55.

    Trying to figure out what I am doing wrong.

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    Re: Whole Plate Image Circle and Lens Focal Length Equivalents to 35mm?

    It's SQRT((6.5 x 6.5) + (8.5 x 8.5)).

    You have to work it from the inside out - do the multiplications, add the results, and take the square root of the sum.
    There's no square root of 8.5 anywhere there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ole Tjugen View Post
    It's SQRT((6.5 x 6.5) + (8.5 x 8.5)).

    You have to work it from the inside out - do the multiplications, add the results, and take the square root of the sum.
    There's no square root of 8.5 anywhere there.
    LOL...

    You know I keep wondering about going something like 5.5X8.5 as weird of a format as that sounds and so I'm trying to gather numbers here. I want to maintain the nice 5X7ratio, but gain a little more film resolution for digital processing.

    I raised this with Sandy because I know he shoots pretty much exclusively 5X7, but I had a peculiarity with how well 5X7 stacks up to a larger size (why I have considered for so long whole plate aside from being able to contact a slight larger size). I also considered 8X10 for a while, but with the Arca system, I don't see a point because I would want to make a primary size, and if anything, I'd have 8X10 or even larger=maybe 5X12 or even 7X17 for my panoramic work. I want my primary to handle the Schneider 72XL which covers 5X7 well, but can be made to cover a little larger format and so I'm trying to see what format would be best suited for my work and that it could be well possible that I do stick to 5X7.

    I ask this question about resolution because until I can get a higher end digital scanner, I'm limited in that area and need the larger film on the flatbed to maximize my final sized print potential.

    Primary work is color, but b/w is a dominant commodity because I love it as well...and it is a lot cheaper unless you go the aerial route for your color film.

    Too much congestion here, but basically...my thinking is like this:

    5X7 if I can make equally good looking prints in both b/w and color vs. the much larger 8X10 and even whole plate. Would use a 4X5 reduction back that is super light so I can use up a ton of 4X5 waiting for me in the freezer, and just because it is so cheap compared to 5X7...though strange ratios of 5.5X8.5 or even 6X8.5 are appealing also due to the extra surface area.

    And then something panoramic like a 7X17 or even 6X15.5 (More funky ratios).

    Thanks and I'll now re-adjust my calculations to get the ic required for each format.

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