Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's never too late to learn something! Thanks, Doug. Jeffery At 10:25 AM 5/19/2004, you wrote: >Jeffery Smith <jls@runbox.com> wrote: > > > Yikes, I thought all of the perspective control problems in shooting > > buildings could be traced to a wide angle lens causing the roof to be > > overly small, giving you a trapezoid effect. Don't wide angles distort > > things, causing converging parallels? > >Converging parallels is what you get when the film plane isn't parallel to >the parallel lines. Has nothing to do with the angle of view - but you >_notice_ the convergence more with wide-angle lenses because of the wider >field of view. Try standing in the middle of a straight road - use a long >lens, aim the camera so the center line of the road bisects the picture - >and see if the edges of the road meet at the horizon. > > >Doug Herr >Birdman of Sacramento >http://www.wildlightphoto.com >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information