Cameras, Formats & Systems
4 terms
Field Camera
Cameras, Formats & Systems
A folding large-format camera built light enough to carry, trading some movement range for portability.
Flange Focal Distance
Cameras, Formats & Systems
mm
The distance from a camera's lens mounting flange to the sensor or film plane.
Focal-plane Shutter
Cameras, Formats & Systems
seconds
A shutter made of two curtains that travel across the sensor just in front of it, exposing the frame as a moving slit at high speeds.
Full Frame
Cameras, Formats & Systems
mm
A sensor the same size as a 35 mm film negative, 36 by 24 millimetres, treated as the reference format for focal length and depth of field.
Crop factor = 1.0