Re: Lens Whopper (TECH-3D digest 225)

[T3D Bob Howard <bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE:  Paul Boyer quotes back the exerpt "Remember short lenses enhance 
perspective and long lenses flatten it!" I took from the Canon book 
"Lens Work II" and rightly labels it a whopper as everyone should 
know that perspective is not determined by the focal length but by 
where the camera is placed. But my taking a sentence out of context 
probably makes the statement look more rediculous that it is, if 
interpeted that "short lenses let photographers get close and long 
ones make one stand away."....hence the effects noted. BobH.
(I suppose we have let the binocular users get away with this for a 
long time..e.g. high power binoculars flatten the perspective? )


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