Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I quite agree Mark. If you look at an object straight ahead then with arms outstretched move your index finger in an arc from in front of you until you just stop being aware of them you see that your visual field is about 180 degrees, mine is anyway. On the other hand, as you say, the bit one concentrates on is quite small. My preference of lens to represent the view "as I see it" needs a 85/90mm lens. A 35 is on the limit for me as a maximum wide angle for observational pictures. OTOH one can get really good visual effects with wider, it is just that the resulting picture bears no resemblance to what I see naturally, for me. So for me I use 35mm or longer for normal photography. I find 28mm neither one thing nor the other, and don?t remember when I last used mine, and wider for special effects and fun or if I can?t get far enough away from my subject for a natural perspective. Frank D. > On 21 Sep 2016, at 23:03, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information