Camera framing simulator

Camera lens preview with your phone

Choose your phone, camera sensor and lens. See which zoom to use before you can mount the camera.

The other camera’s view

Simulated framing from its sensor and lens. Use the suggested zoom to try it on your phone.

Click to centre · Drag to pan · Scroll to change lensTap to centre · Drag to pan

Choose scene

Changes the viewfinder

Illustrative scene · fixed framing reference, not a calibrated photograph. Preview shows the camera sensor's proportions; phone vertical coverage may differ.

Compare camera lenses

8 mm, 12 mm or 50 mm?

The same scene and aiming point, with your selected sensor. Select a picture to try that lens.

Camera help

Match a camera lens with your phone

Try the framing before mounting the camera

01 · Setup

Choose phone and sensor

Select Full frame, APS-C, Micro Four Thirds, 1-inch or an industrial format. Custom crop factor and active dimensions are also available.

02 · Lens

Select the physical lens

Choose 8, 12, 50 mm or another focal length. Changing equipment keeps your lens selected.

03 · On site

Set the phone zoom

Use the phone's camera app from approximately the intended camera position and aim. Check the framing on site.

Same position, similar horizontal view · different sensor proportions can capture more above and below.
PHONE VIEWOTHER CAMERA VIEWIllustration: 16:9 and 4:3

Secondary framing reference

35mm equivalent is a comparison reference, not the physical phone lens. Photography uses lens × crop factor; industrial active areas use lens × 36 ÷ active width. Both then use the selected phone's zoom curve. Lens values use whole millimetres; phone zoom is rounded to one decimal for display.

Approximate framing only. The examples use a fixed illustrative reference; they are not calibrated to the original photographs. Hatched regions contain no image information. This does not predict sharpness, depth of field, exposure, distortion or focus breathing. Phone lenses and camera modes can change framing. Use Object-size calculator for distance-based planning.

Optical reference: Edmund Optics: focal length and field of view. Sensor dimensions reuse the industrial 16:9 and 4:3 examples from this site's Object-size calculator.