Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/27

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Blue in the Face
From: leica@rakitzis.com
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:35:55 -0800

>And image circle shouldn't have any bearing on this, should it...  I mean,
>it's entirely dependent upon the position of the camera relative to the
>subject.  A lens that was truly "wider", in the sense of exaggerated
>perspective, would take in the same amount of information from a closer
>position.

Read Ansel Adams: "The Camera". He explains, with diagrams and
photographs, the whole business. There is no such thing as a wide lens:
only lens coverage, and subject-to-camera distance.

Byron.