On 11/4/05, keith_w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > The only 35mm camera I ever owned that has exactly precise frame > > spacing is a Rollei 35S. > > > > Frame spacing with an interchangeable lens camera can vary a little bit > > when you go from a telephoto to a wide lens. This is because a wide > > lens will "overshoot" the format gate a little bit due to the angle > > that the light path is taking. If you measure the actual exposed area, > > between wide and tele lenses there can be as much as 2.5-3.0mm > > difference in the dimensions of the format, depending on how extreme a > > wide angle lens you use. > > > > Godfrey > > Alla my 35s have a solid rectangular opening in the camera body, thru > which the light rays pass. > It's THAT that forms the outline of the exposed image on the film. > That being the case, how can a different lens, with a changed light > bundle size mean anything at all? It's all chopped off by the body > opening... > > Iguess it's conceivable some other cameras don't follow that design > convention, so... just a comment. And a question.
i've noticed that scanning photos taken with different lenses on the same body require different aspect ratios (don't forget, i scan from full frame prints, so i'm scanning right out to the edges of where the light hits the negative. so, i believe that godders has something there. -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
