Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark. That is about the best way I have ever heard to explain human vision. Aram Aram Langhans (Semi) Retired Science Teacher & Unemployed photographer ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 3:03 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] How did 50mm become the "normal" lens for 35mm cameras? Its just that the unaided eye does not really have a frame it looks through. Its sees the whole room but is only concentrated on a small object in it. Its a tele mounted in a super wide. So its darned hard to impossible to state what the angle of the unaided eye is. Its a sharp 180mm in a bokeh infused 12mm. I don't think we can round these two numbers off and come up with something. As I understand it some people use their peripheral vision differently. On 9/21/16 4:58 PM, "Lew Schwartz" <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that Bill C. is correct. It's relative to what you see with your > unaided eye. > > > -Lew Schwartz > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> >> The normal camera lens now if you want to define normal as "most used by >> the >> most photogs most often for most stuff" is the wide angle zoom. Which has >> come to be the 18 to 35 zoom. This for photojournalists as well as >> commercial photogs and probably fine art dudes too. It started out being >> a >> 20 to 35. But time flew. >> I had a 12-24 for my cropped Nikons which translates to that. >> Not sure if I'm going to get a 20mm 1.8 to go with my new 35 1.8 and 50 >> 1.8 >> and do some quick back and forth running or go with the zoom. >> >> -- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photographer >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/