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Jul 15, 2017 00:57:48   #
twowindsbear
 
BHC wrote:
Where?


on the lens somewhere, I suppose - like on any other lens.

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Jul 15, 2017 03:14:31   #
BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA
 
twowindsbear wrote:
that information would be on the camera.

twowindsbear wrote:
on the lens somewhere, I suppose - like on any other lens.

?

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Jul 15, 2017 06:50:34   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
John42 wrote:
Ok..
My nikon zooms out to 42x
The p900 zooms to 83x
The coming nikon zooms to 100x.
Then

I look at a nikon d3400
With a 70 mm to 300 mm lense.

How does that compare to 40x, 80x and 100x ?


Dividing 70 into 300 = 4.28, so your lens would be rated at 4.3.

The P900 lens is 24-2000mm. 2000 / 24 = 83.

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Jul 15, 2017 07:06:16   #
agambrell
 
You could try digiscoping. A search on it will bring up a lot of options.

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Jul 15, 2017 07:07:52   #
agambrell
 
You could try digiscoping. A search on the term will give you the details on it. Swarovski has a lot of information on their website.

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Jul 15, 2017 08:12:05   #
dylee8 Loc: South Florida
 
It is a little bit more complicated. You have to consider crop factor and effective focal lengths as well.
D3400 is an aps-c camera and has a smaller sensor. Crop factor is 1.5. Effective focal lengths of 70-300 become 105-450. Zoom is then around 4.5.
p900 has a much smaller sensor. Sensor size is 28.07mm2. Compare that to a FX camera - 36*24mm or 864mm2. It also has focal length 4.3 to 357mm, or equivalent focal lengths of 24-2000mm. But the crop factor in this case is a big number.

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Jul 15, 2017 12:32:05   #
pkr
 
So my Sony rx10 iii 24-600 lens is 30x zoom and 12x magnification. Right?

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Jul 15, 2017 12:36:58   #
BebuLamar
 
If the OP can list the model and make of the cameras in question then we can give a definitive answer.

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Jul 15, 2017 12:37:47   #
BebuLamar
 
pkr wrote:
So my Sony rx10 iii 24-600 lens is 30x zoom and 12x magnification. Right?


Yes.

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Jul 15, 2017 12:45:32   #
charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.
 
JimH123 wrote:
This spec, by itself doesn't really tell you enough to actually compare. What they are doing is taking the longest focal length of the lens, 357mm, and divide it by the shortest focal length, 4.3mm, you get 83X. This camera also gives you an equivalent focal length of 24mm to 2000mm. This is not really 24mm to 2000mm, but since the sensor is so small, the camera produces an equivalent field of view on the sensor of what you would see on a full frame camera of 24mm to 2000mm.

Now lets consider a full frame camera for which you have several lenses. Lens 1, let's suppose is 24mm to 70mm. Lens 2 is 70mm-200mm, and lens 3 is 150-600mm. Now, to get this range, you have to use 3 lenses. But the magnification could be computed as 600/24 = 25x. But now, you decide to add a 15-30mm lens. Now the 4 lens power is computed as 600/15 = 40x.

Notice, we did not increase the max focal length, but we did increase the power from 25x to 40x by changing the widest focal length.

So we see that the power, by itself, only tells us the ratio of longest to shortest focal length. And we can change that number by reducing the wide end or increasing the long end.

Now let's do some more math. 24 divided by 4.3 is 5.58. And 2000 divided 357 is 5.60. Rounding both to 5.6 tells us that whatever the actual focal length is, we multiply it by 5.6 to get the equivalent focal length. This in turn affects what the final image is going to look like as we start to enlarge it. The full frame will look better.
This spec, by itself doesn't really tell you enoug... (show quote)



I have a question.
My wife has a fixed lens Nikon Model :Coolpix P-900
On the side of the lens area it says:
"Equiv. 135 24-2000 mm
Can you tell me just what the heck this means?

Just curious.

She seems to love the camera .

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Jul 15, 2017 12:52:50   #
GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City
 
twowindsbear wrote:
(I don't know how to add any more emphasis to the capitalized words. I'd make 'em red & bold if I could!)


Bold- left bracket [, b, right bracket ], then the word you want bolded... followed by left bracket [, right leaning slash /, b and right bracket ]

Click on "quote reply" to see how it looks when written below:

BOLD

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Jul 15, 2017 14:11:44   #
BebuLamar
 
charles tabb wrote:
I have a question.
My wife has a fixed lens Nikon Model :Coolpix P-900
On the side of the lens area it says:
"Equiv. 135 24-2000 mm
Can you tell me just what the heck this means?

Just curious.

She seems to love the camera .


It means that the camera offer equivalent focal length of a 35mm camera of 24-2000mm although the lens focal length is actually much shorter.
The angle of view can vary from 84 to 1.17 degrees diagonal.
It has the zoom range of 83x
It has the magnification as compared to a normal lens of 40x

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Jul 16, 2017 06:06:26   #
lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA
 
BHC wrote:
42X, 83X and 100 X compared to what? We can start with the mathematically correct "standard" normal 35mm figure of 43.3mm or the commonly accepted 50mm. Also, factor in that smaller sensors' crop factors are rounded and published focal lengths vary, and you have a myriad of numbers with which to deal.

To simplify matters, using the common 50mm "standard", a 70-300 is 1.4X to 6x.

Of course, the science of optics, combined with the design of lenses, gives us so many variables that the answer to your question can only be approximated. By the way, I like your spelling of lense; it drives some people absolutely insane. 😊🙃🙂
42X, 83X and 100 X compared to what? We can start... (show quote)


Yes, like me, "lense". French or German spelling? Never saw the word until about two years ago on the UHH. I'm nearly 63 and been seriously doing photography since 1978! I kinda concur on the other issue but I'd go with the technically correct diagonal of the frame format for a normal lens.

35mm film or FF digital: 24x36mm > 43mm
so a 70-300mm is 1.6x to 7.0x, zoom ratio 4.4x

for a Cropped Factor digital: > 28mm
so a 70-300mm is 2.5x to 10.7x, zoom ratio 4.3x


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