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Digital 17mm Is Not Equivelent 27mm on 35mm Film
Just realised that even though manufactures give 35mm equivalents, it is not
really true. If you shoot tall buildings at 17mm on digital (with 1.6 crop factor), you still get distorted pics just like 17mm lenses on 35mm film cameras. |
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"A" wrote in message ... Just realised that even though manufactures give 35mm equivalents, it is not really true. If you shoot tall buildings at 17mm on digital (with 1.6 crop factor), you still get distorted pics just like 17mm lenses on 35mm film cameras. The "equivalents" really only apply to *field of view,* since you're really just cropping out the middle portion of the normal 35mm film camera's image. |
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"MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:FL3xd.59115$ka2.18959@fed1read04... "A" wrote in message ... Just realised that even though manufactures give 35mm equivalents, it is not really true. If you shoot tall buildings at 17mm on digital (with 1.6 crop factor), you still get distorted pics just like 17mm lenses on 35mm film cameras. The "equivalents" really only apply to *field of view,* since you're really just cropping out the middle portion of the normal 35mm film camera's image. I assume most of you know this, but I didn't until I read it in a book. If you tilt the camera up when taking a tall building, the resulting 'falling back effect" can be corrected using the deform tool in a photo editor, with some reduction of picture content. Sort of like having an old swing and tilt plate camera (which I bet would do a better job). Dave Cohen |
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"Dave Cohen" wrote in
news:1103417385.c5fa8a62fb815db7e0b4afea6ffddb7d@t eranews: Sort of like having an old swing and tilt plate camera (which I bet would do a better job). Yeah. Somehow using a view camera with it's movements produces a different picture than taking a digital photo and manipulating it. My wild guess is it might have something to do with lens distortion. I have noticed, at least with some images, if you do a simple perspecive change in software, some of the lines that should be parallel with others end up pointing in different directions. Bob -- Delete the inverse SPAM to reply |
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Dave Cohen wrote: I assume most of you know this, but I didn't until I read it in a book. If you tilt the camera up when taking a tall building, the resulting 'falling back effect" can be corrected using the deform tool in a photo editor, with some reduction of picture content. Sort of like having an old swing and tilt plate camera (which I bet would do a better job). Dave Cohen Not many people know that movements on a LF camera (swing and tilt) introduces distortion into the image, by altering the aspect ratio of the subject. The converging - sometimes diverging - lines can be corrected with movements, but at the expense of the building or whatever being rendered taller, and the foreground over large. Perspective correction can be done in Photoshop with Transform tools, and the image aspect ratio can be corrected as well with Image Size by un-ticking Constrain Proportions, and adjusting either height or width as appropriate. It's up to the operator how he decides when it is correct, but it can be done. Colin |
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"Dave Cohen" wrote in
news:1103417385.c5fa8a62fb815db7e0b4afea6ffddb7d@t eranews: Sort of like having an old swing and tilt plate camera (which I bet would do a better job). Yeah. Somehow using a view camera with it's movements produces a different picture than taking a digital photo and manipulating it. My wild guess is it might have something to do with lens distortion. I have noticed, at least with some images, if you do a simple perspecive change in software, some of the lines that should be parallel with others end up pointing in different directions. Bob -- Delete the inverse SPAM to reply |
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"Mark=B2" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote:
"A" wrote in message If you shoot tall buildings at 17mm on digital (with 1.6 crop factor),= you still get distorted pics just like 17mm lenses on 35mm film cameras. The "equivalents" really only apply to *field of view,* since you're re= ally just cropping out the middle portion of the normal 35mm film camera's i= mage. Is it also true that if you take a portrait of a person with a big nose using a 50mm lens on your DSLR instead of an 85mm(*) lens on your SLR, the nose will look bigger in the DSLR picture? (*) The two aren't quite equivalent, 80mm would be. |
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"Bill Tuthill" wrote in message ... "MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote: "A" wrote in message If you shoot tall buildings at 17mm on digital (with 1.6 crop factor), you still get distorted pics just like 17mm lenses on 35mm film cameras. The "equivalents" really only apply to *field of view,* since you're really just cropping out the middle portion of the normal 35mm film camera's image. Is it also true that if you take a portrait of a person with a big nose using a 50mm lens on your DSLR instead of an 85mm(*) lens on your SLR, the nose will look bigger in the DSLR picture? (*) The two aren't quite equivalent, 80mm would be. It would give you the same perspective because you would likely back away to the same distance you would have if you used the 80mm on a film camera. Remember, the nose:face size ratio (big or smaller nose) is NOT determined by the focal length, but instead, the relative difference in distance to the nose tip compared with the distance to the rest of the face. This is easier to conceptualize if you imagine an EXTREME close-up. Imagine yourself taking a picture of someone's face only one inch away from a person's nose. If you did this, the nose would be one inch away, and the rest of their face would be perhaps two inches and further away...TWICE the distance away that their nose was from you. This will greatly exaggerate the size appearance of the nose because there is a nose:face distance ratio of 1:2. This difference will remain true regardless of what focal length you have mounted. Now imagine backing away from the nose/face. As you back away to a full one foot (12 inches) from the nose, the ratio of distance from nose:face has now changed to a far more similar 12:13 ratio (12 inches from the nose, and 13 inches from the face). As you move back to 8 feet away (for example), the ratio of distance from nose vs. distance from face will become tiny (96:97). You can see from this extreme example how the farther you back up, and less out of whack the ratio of distance between (distance to) nose and (distance to) face will become. **This ratio will remain consistent regardless of what lens you use. What WILL change is how much of your subject is visible within the frame. So...when you've got your 50mm lens attached, and you add the 1.6 crop factor, you will have to back up to a similar distance than you would with your ~80mm lens. --This will give you the same perspective. It's all about relative distance to the subject's closest attribute (in this case, the nose) compared with the distance to the rest of the subject. You've probably seen those funny snap-shots taken of cows, or dogs, where it seems like their nose stretches right out to you? -Those look that way simply because they were taken at such close range that the distance ratio was extreme...and that they used such a wide-angle lens, that you could still see the entire face/head to appreciate the distorted difference. -Mark |
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"MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:Gp_xd.60904$ka2.26406@fed1read04... "Bill Tuthill" wrote in message ... "MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote: "A" wrote in message If you shoot tall buildings at 17mm on digital (with 1.6 crop factor), you still get distorted pics just like 17mm lenses on 35mm film cameras. The "equivalents" really only apply to *field of view,* since you're really just cropping out the middle portion of the normal 35mm film camera's image. Is it also true that if you take a portrait of a person with a big nose using a 50mm lens on your DSLR instead of an 85mm(*) lens on your SLR, the nose will look bigger in the DSLR picture? (*) The two aren't quite equivalent, 80mm would be. ----------- My above post began he (for some reason, Bill's post didn't have "" preceding it in my other response to him) It would give you the same perspective because you would likely back away to the same distance you would have if you used the 80mm on a film camera. Remember, the nose:face size ratio (big or smaller nose) is NOT determined by the focal length, but instead, the relative difference in distance to the nose tip compared with the distance to the rest of the face. This is easier to conceptualize if you imagine an EXTREME close-up. Imagine yourself taking a picture of someone's face only one inch away from a person's nose. If you did this, the nose would be one inch away, and the rest of their face would be perhaps two inches and further away...TWICE the distance away that their nose was from you. This will greatly exaggerate the size appearance of the nose because there is a nose:face distance ratio of 1:2. This difference will remain true regardless of what focal length you have mounted. Now imagine backing away from the nose/face. As you back away to a full one foot (12 inches) from the nose, the ratio of distance from nose:face has now changed to a far more similar 12:13 ratio (12 inches from the nose, and 13 inches from the face). As you move back to 8 feet away (for example), the ratio of distance from nose vs. distance from face will become tiny (96:97). You can see from this extreme example how the farther you back up, and less out of whack the ratio of distance between (distance to) nose and (distance to) face will become. **This ratio will remain consistent regardless of what lens you use. What WILL change is how much of your subject is visible within the frame. So...when you've got your 50mm lens attached, and you add the 1.6 crop factor, you will have to back up to a similar distance than you would with your ~80mm lens. --This will give you the same perspective. It's all about relative distance to the subject's closest attribute (in this case, the nose) compared with the distance to the rest of the subject. You've probably seen those funny snap-shots taken of cows, or dogs, where it seems like their nose stretches right out to you? -Those look that way simply because they were taken at such close range that the distance ratio was extreme...and that they used such a wide-angle lens, that you could still see the entire face/head to appreciate the distorted difference. -Mark |
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The "big nose" effect is due to camera position. Therefore given the same
cropping (image size) of the person and 50mm lens on a 1.5 factor digital camera would give the perspective of a 75mm lens on a 35mm camera. (same distance from subject for same image size as the 75 lens on 35mm camera) A digital with a 1.6 factor would yield an 80mm perspective. This is all based on camera distance to subject. Longer lenses flatten perspective thus allowing nose and ears to appear more correct in their relationship to each other. (Hope I didn't jumble that too badly) Hope this helps, Dave |
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