On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Bruce Dayton wrote: > As one who shoots weddings and portraits regularly, I have to caution > on too wide a shooting. Although the prime is probably better > corrected for linear distortion, you have to be cautious about > shooting too close with too wide a lens. The reason is that a > rectilinear lens distorts in a different fashion than a fisheye. All > the lines are straight, but the closer to the outside edges, the > objects get squished and fatter looking. The net result is that the > people on the outside edge will look short and fat (comparatively). > This can be really bad if they really are a little short or fat. > > I think for the DSLR, around 24mm is about as wide as you would want > to shoot.
Interesting. Are you saying that a 28/30/31 fattens outsides edges on a 35mm? I have sure seen it on 24. Kostas -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
