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Old December 28th 18, 04:27 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default Does smartphone angle of view depend only on focal length?

In article , Sam Brown
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What a lot of irrelevant blather!

nothing irrelevant about it.

digital is now the default. film requires a modifier.

'camera' or 'slr' is digital.

I suspect he means there's not much in your previous post (about 35mm
cameras etc) which addresses the points about focal length and field of
view.


it exactly addressed it.

tl;dr there are multiple sensor sizes, so a lens with a given focal
length can have different fields of view, even on the same camera.


Are you sure?


yes.

I'm not, so I took another look at your post and can't find
a single relevant statement. Perhaps you can identify what you mean.
This is what I saw:


previous posts directly addressed the field of view issue.

someone wanted to argue about modern digital cameras (the topic under
discussion) and obsolete film cameras, so i responded to that.