What is the major difference between 8mm,16mm,35mm and other lenses?

Question

Is it the change in clarity or the size of frame.

Answer 1

Are we talking frame size or lens size? 8, 16, and 35 are common film sizes, whereas lens size a 28mm covers a larger area, compared to say a 55mm lens. The 55mm is just about what the normal eye sees with. If you look at the right side car mirror, you'll notice that it makes things look smaller than a flat mirror would show. This is how an image looks using a 28mm lens. A 210mm lens is telescopic and brings things afar up close.
Back to frame sizes -- a 35mm film can have more detail than an 8mm frame size since it is bigger, and thus better resolution.
Another way to look at this (no pun intended) is analogous to the human eye. The camera film is like the retina, or back of the eye, and the camera lens is like the lens, or front of the eye.

Answer 2

The frame size is the same. The lenses are the focal length of the lens. Focal length is determined by the distance from the front focal point of the system to the first optical surface. A "normal " lens for a 35mm camera is 50mm. As the focal length gets smaller the wider field of view you have. Anything less than a 20mm lens is considered to be a "fish-eye". While newer lenses are corrected to not warp the image, kind of like a fish eye view, some of the older lenses still give you that funky warp to the image. Most 14-17mm lenses are corrected but an 8mm lens will get your feet in the photo if you aren't careful. Any fixed focal length lens will give you a sharp crisp image as long as you focus correctly.

Answer 3

You are talking about frame sizes in movie films, besides, you forgot to mention super 8, which frame is wider than 8mm.
8mm is 1/2 of 16mm and 16mm 1/2 of 35mm.
8mm cameras use a 16mm spool film in a way that when you finish the spool you just flip it over en put it back in the camera and keep filming till finish 'again'. The lab will develop the film as 16mm and then cut though the center and splice it for you.

Answer 4

The difference would be the magnification level. A 35mm lense can take clear photos much further than a 8mm lense can.

Answer 5

16mm Vs 35mm

Answer 6

the ONLY difference is in the way those focal lengths represent space. A lower than 50mm lens expands the visual effect of perspective (making close objects larger and farther objects smaller) and a higher focal length compresses space. The number of the focal length determines how profound the effect is.