Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Tom Donovan wrote: > >>I've been reading John Loengard's "Pictures Under Discuss- >>ion" well if you read that book, then you are probably a b&w person, so why don't you shoot vertical and decide later if you want to make the final prints horizontal or vertical? > >Just remember, the wider the lens "the greater the distortion" if the >subject is too close. Yes I know what he means. But I think the statement has to be rephrased to make the point more clear. Something like: The closer a person's face is to the lens, the greater the distortion. But a 21 mm lens does not distort more than a 90 mm lens given the lens to face distance is the same. It is just that with a 21 mm lens you tend to get closer to the subject because you want the face to take up a certain amount of the negative area irrespective of the focal lens. Keep reading, but then keep shooting too, and analyse your own pictures!