Why dx format

Your full-frame FX lenses will work perfectly on a crop-sensor DX body. That said, remember to take the 1. For example, a mm FX lens will provide approximately a mm view on a DX body.

However, when you attach a DX lens to an FX body, it will automatically change to its built-in DX crop mode to avoid the vignetting that would otherwise occur. Brooke Arnold is a writer and award-winning photographer specializing in cat portraits. She is an advocate for rescue animals and is best known for dressing up her cats as famous people like Bob Ross and Evel Knievel. Her biggest claim to fame, however, is being child 2 in an orange juice ad that hung in a mall in Miami at age 8.

Browse our Documentation or contact Support to get your questions answered. As discussed earlier, 24mm focal length on a DX lens will be equivalent to 36mm on a full frame lens. This conversion to full frame focal length is called as equivalent focal length.

This can be useful when you are buying a lens for your DX camera. For example, 50mm is considered as the best focal length to capture portraits and do street photography. But that focal length is with respect to a full frame body. The equivalent focal length of a 50mm lens on a DX body will be around 80mm. For photographers on budget or those who will publish their work only on the web a DX sensor camera should suffice.

Obviously if you want the best image quality FX camera is the way to go. But remember that even your subsequent investments in lenses will cost you comparatively more.

I hope this article has eliminated any doubts regarding DX sensors once and for all! Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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