Use field of view to plan phone framing
Field of view describes how wide a camera sees. A shorter focal length or wider sensor shows more of the scene. A longer focal length or sensor crop shows a narrower area and makes distant subjects occupy more of the frame.
Find the right phone camera values
Use the actual focal length and physical sensor width for one camera module. Do not enter a full-frame equivalent focal length with a phone sensor width, because those values describe different formats.
What the distance result means
- The scene-width result covers the horizontal frame at the entered distance.
- Doubling subject distance doubles the width covered.
- Digital stabilization or zoom may crop the result further.