Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---"Martin V. Howard" <marho@ida.liu.se> wrote: Martin, Incorrect. Perspective is dependent on lens to subject distance, NOT on focal length. At 19" the nose will bear the same relationship to he rest of the face with any focal length. The MAGNIFICATION varies with focal length. Photography 101 > Consequently, a nose ought to be more disproportionally large with a > 35mm from 19 inches away, than with a 50mm near-focus from 19 inches > away. > > Right? > > > M. > > -- > Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Now fully > Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Y2K compliant. > SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ > Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com