On Aug 5, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote: > ... If the APS-C sensor sticks around then younger photographers will > think of the 50 mm as a short telephoto. To me, this is as it should > be. Hell, I*M starting to think like that.
I've been advocating that people learn to think of field of view independent of specific focal length numbers for a long time. If you think "wide", "wide normal", "normal" etc instead of focal length numbers, what you mean is clear independent of format size. I hate the way all the focal length nomenclature has been confusticated with crop factors and equivalences. In the context of a Pentax DSLR, a 50mm lens is a portrait telephoto. And in the context of a Pentax 645, a 50mm lens is a wide. Sure makes it easy for me to know what I'm working with. Be in the format. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
