Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:25 PM 12/15/97 -0500, you wrote: >I'm confused. I thought that perspective for any lens is the same >regardless of its focal length. I thought that the only thing that changes >is angle of view which allows you to change your working distance which will >change your perspective. Right? Art, Perspective is a function of the distance from you to the subject and background. It changes only as you move closer to, or farther away from the subject. If you shoot a picture from the same distance with a 50 Summicron, and then with a 180 Elmarit, and then crop the 50mm picture so it has the same crop as the full frame of the 180, the perspective is identical between the two pictures. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch It's never too late to have a happy childhood.