>... The books say that the 50/55mm lenses have the most natural
>perspective, not the 80mm.
>
>In the room I was in a 50mm lens would not have got the whole group
>in - lots of professional group photographers always shoot outside,
>maybe not just for the light?
>
>--
>
>Ian <IMS>
> OM Tyro - please point my lens in the right direction.
Actually, a few years ago, Leica Fotografie took up the issue of "normal"
perspective and found that and 85-90 mm lens is the closest to the way we
see. Its field is just not as large. Photo comparisons were also made of
famous landmarks in Europe painted many times by the great lanscape
painters of of the 18th and 19th centuries and found that most often the
85-90 mm lens created a perspective closest to that chosen by artists who
painted from life. The so called normal lens is by definition the one whose
length is close to the diagonal dimension of the film and which does not
appear to magnify the image. Perspective has more to do with distance of
the object from the film plane, not the lens length. However, the way we
frame a subject whether making a painting or a photograph, 85 mm puts us at
the correct distance for a traditionally "pleasing" or "normal"
perspective.
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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