What Is Crop Factor? And How Does It Affect The Photos I Take?

Send us Fan MailWhat Is Crop Factor? And How Does It Affect The Photos I Take?  Hi and welcome to Episode 122 of the Photography Explained podcast.I’m your host Rick, and in each episode I will try to explain one photographic thing to you in plain English in less than 10 minutes (ish) without the irrelevant details. What I tell you is based on my lifetime of photographic experience. And not Google. No offense Google.Before I go on I need your help. I need your questions to answer. More on this at the end.Here is the answery bit.Crop factor is a number used to calculate the effective focal length of a camera lens on a cropped sensor or micro four thirds camera, compared to the same focal length on a full frame camera. Photos taken with cropped sensor and micro four thirds cameras are in effect zoomed in, when compared to the same focal length on a full frame camera. Photos taken at the same focal length on cropped sensor and micro four thirds cameras have a narrower field of view, meaning you get less in the photo.Blimey. This is one of those. Complicated, quite boring, but very important. I will do my best on this one don’t worry.Listen for more, or check out the transcript and even the blog post - so many ways to find out more!What’s next?Epiosde 123 - 9 Reasons Why Camera Sensor Size Matters? And What This Really Means To Us! Support the showGet your question answeredThis is what my podcast is all about: answering your photography questions. Just head over to my shiny new website to find out more about me, my podcast and my photography.Thanks very much for listeningCheers from me Rick