On Mon, 25 May 2009 16:04:16 -0700 Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote:
> Telephoto lenses don't reach out, they narrow the usable field of > view at the same time increasing resolution to render that field > sharp. telephoto lenses do have a narrower FOV but the image on an aps sensor/film with any lens is a crop of the image made with the same lens on a 35mm sensor/film. thus the barrel in the centre of the image is the same size... not larger as the implied 100=150 would have one believe telephoto lenses provide magnification of distant views, reach. semantics are important if we are to understand one another. what you are saying does not match my understanding though may be only different in dialect. -- "Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.- Robert Heinlein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
