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Re: My 7p Realist!!!

  • From: P3D Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: My 7p Realist!!!
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:29:35 -0500
Paul Talbot

> Isn't 8-perf closer to 42mm
> on the diagonal?  I had heard a long time ago that the so-called
> "normal" 50mm lens on a 35mm format camera is actually slightly
> telephoto.  Am I remembering something incorrectly?


No, this is all quite correct. Perhaps BobH or another of the list's 
historians can tell us why 50ish mm became the convention for "normal" 
lenses on 35 mm cameras...


Eric G.


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