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Field of view & crop factor calculator

Enter a focal length and a sensor size to get the equivalent focal length and the angle of view.

36 × 24 mm sensor

Equivalent
19mm
Crop factor
1×
Horizontal
86.9°
Vertical
64.6°
Diagonal
97.4°
Full frame at 19mm Scene = 14mm on full frame, drawn to scale

Method

How the calculator works

Angle of view = 2 × arctan(sensor dimension / (2 × focal length)). We use the real sensor width, height and diagonal for the chosen format, so the horizontal, vertical and diagonal angles are each calculated from their own dimension.

Crop factor is the full-frame diagonal (43.3mm) divided by the sensor diagonal. Multiply a lens's focal length by it to get the full-frame equivalent field of view: a 19mm lens on Full frame frames like a 19mm lens on full frame. Depth of field and light gathering do not scale the same way, only the framing does.

Common presets: full frame 1x, APS-C Nikon, Sony and Fuji 1.5x, APS-C Canon 1.6x, Micro Four Thirds 2x and medium format (44x33) about 0.79x.

Lenses that cover 19mm

Sigma 19mm f/2.8 DN

Sigma

19mm f/2.8 DN

19mm f/2.8

Micro Four Thirds · Micro-four-thirds

Laowa

19mm f/2.8 Zero-D

19mm f/2.8

Fujifilm GFX · Medium-format

Laowa

19mm f/2.8 Zero-D

19mm f/2.8

Hasselblad XCD · Medium-format

Vivitar

19mm f/3.8

19mm f/3.8

Canon FD

Vivitar

19mm f/3.8

19mm f/3.8

M42

Vivitar

19mm f/3.8

19mm f/3.8

Minolta MD