Walt, please train the lens on the neighbour lady and post the photo.
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From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Thursday, December 2, 2004 4:34 pm
Subject: [OM] Re: Great E-1 150/2.0 pix on dpreview.com
> One more time:
>
> Let us take a hypothetical 180mm lens, one that will cover the
> 8x10 in. format, and let us assume we can attach it to a 6x9cm
> camera, which would be no problem, and to a 35mm camera, which
> might require some duct tape and an empty soup can. Now, let us
> very carefully focus and center all three cameras with this lens
> on a Prince Albert tin about 30 feet away in my front yard.
>
> On the 8x10 camera, this is a wide angle lens, so not only will we
> get a picture of Prince Albert, but we'll maybe get the OM-4Runner
> in the driveway, the neighbor lady in her bathrobe coming out to
> get her morning paper (if we're not too early), our mailbox, part
> of the fence across the street, and all of the front sidewalk and
> the hemlocks beside it.
>
> With the same lens on the 6x9 camera, we'll miss the neighbor lady
> (with any luck, she's come over by now to see what's going on --
> she really likes me, you know), and we're probably not getting the
> OM-4Runner or the mailbox, but a fair amount of the sidewalk and
> the bottom of the hemlocks.
>
> Same lens on the 35mm gets the can and a bit of background grass,
> but not much else. After all, 180mm is a telephoto lens on this
> format.
> Now, if we cut a 6x9cm section out of the 8x10 in. negative, it's
> going to be identical to the 6x9 negative. Then if we cut a
> 24x36mm section out of both the 8x10 and the 6x9, they'll each be
> identical to the 35mm negative. They're all going to have the
> same DOF, same perspective, same everything, because they were all
> -- anyone? anyone? -- shot with the same ****ing focal length lens!
>
> I don't think I can explain it any more better. Jeez, just when
> you need him, Ansel's dead.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
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