Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/04

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Subject: [Leica] One camera, one lens
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:35:49 -0500
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On Sep 4, 2013, at 5:23 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> In terms of human scale
> "street" type photography
> 
> A 21 mm on a 24 x 36 frame
> feels like what I see when I concentrate
> on "taking in" my peripheral vision.
> 
> (Anything shorter than the 21mm
> feels quite outside my unaided human eye experience)

Of course this "peripheral" view
is much more circular/square
than
the 24 x 36 / ellipse

which is why most "panoramas"
feel fairly unnatural to me.

The 2:3 already stretches my "natural" visual experience;
though I truly do enjoy that particular stretch.

I also truly enjoy the square

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
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