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Re: Re: Re: Digital camera advice

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Originally posted by masraum
!!!!!VERY IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!!!!

If you need very wide angle for shooting a whole room then a DSLR may not be for you. Most of the DSLR cameras have a sensor that is smaller than a frame in a 35mm camera, consequently, an 18mm lens on an DSLR is is like a 35mm lens on a film camera.
I have heard this before, which helps to make the process nice and confusing. Can I trust when a P&S camera says (for example) 28-90mm that it is the equivalent of a film camera, or is the an adjustment that needs to be made.
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