[Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

Perspective as in .... the vanishing point!!

e.g. if you take a photo of a person with a building way behind them. On a
40mm perspective, the building will appear one size, but a 20mm perspective
will (I'm pretty sure) make the building look smaller.


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Richard: I understand "closeness" and "frame" and DofF here, but I don't
> know what you mean by "perspective" in this case. Can you explain the
> perspective part?
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Vince, try this:
> >
> > You are getting a ~40mm closeness, e.g. if you want to frame a headshot,
> > you
> > will end up ~where you would be if you are using a 40mm lens on a 35mm
> > camera, but the perspective (and DoF) would still be 20mm. Hence the look
> > is
> > not quite like straight 40mm on a 35mm camera.
> >
> >
>
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