On Wednesday, Feb 26, 2003, at 18:54 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
already have the perfect portrait lens--the "75mm effective" (a.k.a. 50mm)Not really. The fact that the 50 has a field of view more like a 75 is created by cropping, not optical zooming. In effect, the less-than-24x36 image sensor size means that there's a permanently enabled digital zoom feature on the camera.
f/1.4 lens. Now just give me a good fast moderate wide-angle for the *ist D
and I'm home free.
All you're doing is cropping. The perspective-flattening effects of longer optics aren't going to come into play (or will they? maybe I'm the confused one).
-- David Barts Portland, OR
