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===Cinema=== In [[cinematography]], a [[focal length]] roughly equivalent to twice the diagonal of the image projected within the [[camera]] is considered normal, since movies are typically viewed from a distance of about twice the screen diagonal.<ref>Anton Wilson, ''Anton Wilson's Cinema Workshop'', American Cinematographer, 2004 (Page 100) [https://books.google.com/books?id=18Ck5PZX_ZsC&dq=cinematography+normal-lens&pg=PA101 online].</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Film format !! Image dimensions !! Image diagonal !! Normal lens focal length |- | [[8 mm film|Standard 8]] | 3.7 Γ 4.9 mm | 6.11 mm | 12β15 mm |- | [[8 mm film|Single-8]] (FUJI) | 4.2 Γ 6.2 mm | 7.5 mm | 15β17 mm |- | [[Super 8 mm film|Super-8]] | 4.2 Γ 6.2 mm | 7.5 mm | 15β17 mm |- | [[9.5 mm film|9.5 mm]] | 6.5 Γ 8.5 mm | 10.7 mm | 20 mm |- | [[16 mm film|16 mm]] | 7.5 Γ 10.3 mm | 12.7 mm | 25 mm |- | [[35mm movie film|35 mm]] | 18.0 Γ 24.0 mm | 30.0 mm | 60 mm |- | [[35mm movie film|35 mm]], sound | 16.0 Γ 22.0 mm | 27.2 mm | 50 mm |- | [[65 mm film|65 mm]] | 52.6 Γ 23.0 mm | 57.4 mm | 125 mm |- |}
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