Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alfred Breull wrote: > >Since it's a 50 mm, you should be a little cautious > with portraits, otherwise you create really huge noses filling your > pictures :) I'm aware of this problem with wide-angle lenses. However, I thought that 50mm was the closest to the eye's natural angle (or whatever they call it) and therefore it wouldn't be a problem. Normally, when you photograph a portrait with a 50mm you get half the upper body too (don't know about Leica, but this was the case with my Nikon equipment of ten years ago). I was hoping that with a 50mm NF, I could get a bit closer, perhaps head and shoulders, while still retaining a bit of the background. Can anyone comment on feasibility of this? M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Now fully Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Y2K compliant. SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho