Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/26

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:10:35 -0500
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Right.

I would refer to what Richard described:

At 12:55 AM -0700 3/26/10, Richard Man wrote:
> 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.

as the "relative scale" of objects
when photographing with lenses of different focal lengths.
not
as "perspective" differences.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
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On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:

> Perspective only depends on viewpoint. Not focal length, not  
> aperture, not sensor size, not enlargement. Only viewpoint.



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