Focal Length converted... I want actual...

I'm not entirely sure when this happened, but at some point Photos started displaying the lens focal length in "35mm equivalent" instead of the actual focal length. I think it happened with the High Sierra update (I'm currently using 12.2.1).


If I use my iPhone, for example, it now displays 28mm instead of the actual focal length.


If I use my 50mm lens on a camera with a "full frame" sensor, it shows it as 50mm, but if I put it on a camera with an APS-C sensor (or in APS-C mode on the full frame camera), it shows 75mm.


I understand why this happened, but how do I turn it back to displaying actual focal length values?


I don't really care what the focal length of my phone displays as, but I swap lenses back and forth among cameras with different sensor sizes, and I'd like to know the real numbers, not the "equivalent"...

iMac 27″, macOS 12.2

Posted on Feb 20, 2022 4:19 PM

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