On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > 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.
They certainly do. There's even a little bit of it going on with a 35mm lens. That's why a 43mm or longer lens looks 'normal' on 35mm film... and a wide lens looks wide. ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
