Lens Whopper

[T3D Paul S. Boyer <boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Howard quotes that recent Canon lens book as saying:
"Remember short lenses exhance perspective and long lenses flatten 
it."
I hope that everyone here realizes that the quoted saying is
essentially a fallacy: perspective is a function of object
distance; lens length merely changes the angle of view.
That is quite a whopping misstatement to find its way
into an authoritative book.  The author(s) probably know
huge amounts of trivia on individual lenses, but have
missed out on some fundamentals.

--Paul Boyer   <boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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