RE: Digital camera again...

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:05 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Digital camera again...
>
> ...
> OK, enough persiflage... My first question is: I'm usually about two
> feet, maybe a tad more, from my subject... if I shoot at chest level,
> often the legs dwindle, a funny perspective effect. I figure
> that's NOT
> another effect of digital perspective, but just the way the
> 35 mm (or 28
> mm??) of the lens behaves.... I rarely saw anything like it in analog
> because I rarely shot that close and rarely with less than 50 mm.

I understand it's perspective / projection distortion of wide angle lens
- nothing special to digital camera. See some of my wide angle shots
showing this effect / distortion (all 21mm shots on 35mm film):

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1938770-lg.jpg
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1786484-lg.jpg
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1460720-lg.jpg
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1593329-lg.jpg (*)
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2125417-lg.jpg

I often see this in my photos because I use 21mm as wide angle, 35mm as
normal and 50mm as a tele lens. 75 is super-tele for me!

Regards,
Loris.
Received on Fri Jul 30 03:04:40 2004