"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote in message
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"Nostrobino" writes:

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On 16 Jul 2004 02:16:09 GMT, ospam (PrincePete01)
wrote:
what i'm really trying to get is this....would a 50mm lens used on a
digital body (effective
75mm coverage) be an acceptable portrait lens?

peter

Actually, it will not make any deifference at all. Lens focal length
has nothing to do with perspective.

That depends on how you use the term "perspective." In the way that most
people use it, it definitely is related to focal length.

Um, no. If you show people two photos taken from the exact same
location with widely differing focal lengths and ask them if the
perspective is the same or different, they'll either have no idea what
you're talking about, or decide it's the same in the two photos.

I doubt very much that any ordinary person looking at two photos taken from
the same position, one with a 17mm lens and the other with a 300mm lens,
would decide they had the same perspective. Most people would understand
"perspective" well enough to realize they were looking at pictures with
radically different perspectives.



If you're standing on a spot and want to change the perspective of
your view, changing lenses will not help.

That would be true if you were shooting a perfectly two-dimensional wall
running perpendicular to your lens axis and filling the frame. But only in
that unusual circumstance.