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Subject: [Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:04:24 -0700
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Vince, try this:

You are getting a ~40mm closeness, e.g. if you want to frame a headshot, you
will end up ~where you would be if you are using a 40mm lens on a 35mm
camera, but the perspective (and DoF) would still be 20mm. Hence the look is
not quite like straight 40mm on a 35mm camera.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at 
gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I wish I could find some article that addressed all this because, as I say,
> I find it baffling. What you get with a 20mm lens isn't a cropped down
> middle of a 20mm shot exactly; and it's not as close up as a 40mm shot
> would
> be, no matter the  crop size.  All I can say is, for me, walking around,
> I've found 35mm to be the most versatile prime to be using on the 2X G1,
> neither too large nor too small but as Goldilocks says before she pipes all
> that opium and goes to sleep for 20 years, "Just right!".
>
>
>


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