Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All, Marco is correct. IF you take a picture with a 50mm lens, take it off and put on at 35mm lens from the same spot and take another picture then compare them by masking off the parts of the 35mm print that is not in the 50mm print you will see that the two match. It is magnification that matters. BUT, if the lens is not so good, you may find some distortion effects that are unique to the lens. This will probably not happen with a Leica lens. test prints are easy to do. Regards, Bryant - ---------- From: Marco Grande <hektor73@yahoo.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Pictures taken with SOOKY-M Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 1:22 PM - ---"Martin V. Howard" <marho@ida.liu.se> wrote: Martin, Incorrect. Perspective is dependent on lens to subject distance, NOT on focal length. At 19" the nose will bear the same relationship to he rest of the face with any focal length. The MAGNIFICATION varies with focal length. Photography 101 > Consequently, a nose ought to be more disproportionally large with a > 35mm from 19 inches away, than with a 50mm near-focus from 19 inches > away. > > Right? > > > 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 > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com