nope, the 50mm's AOV I am talking is much closer to "normal" than the very narrow AOV the longer lenses give which is sometimes reffered to as a "telephoto compression effect" because the POV is very far away relative to the subject size. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:29 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Macro Lenses J. C. O'Connell wrote: > yes, a WIDER AOV , (much more "normal" AOV ) from > a different, closer point of view than the really > long macro's extremely narrow AOV from more > distant POVs. Sounds like a specialist kind of purpose (kinda like what you called my specialist purpose of LIMITING AOV or photographing very small objects). -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
