50mm is suppose to be like our natural vision?
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Baydream wrote: If "normal" is looking through a rectangular hole on a wall.
"I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little hole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?" -David Hockney
Distortion is a function of lens design, not focal length. Modern camera lenses are not pinhole devices, instead they use a compound design. Lack of distortion, in a compound lens, is due to the designer carefully setting up the various lens elements to correct for distortion. This is just as true for "normal" focal length lenses as it is for wide angle and telephoto. Here is a shot with a 10mm lens (dial in 1.6x crop factor if you want) with very mild distortion -
Had the designer not cared about distortion, it would have had lots of distortion. The very same thing is true for "normal" lenses. There really isn't anything magic about the normal focal length, except that it happens to be more useful for more people.
Kelly
Henry Peach wrote:
Baydream wrote: If "normal" is looking through a rectangular hole on a wall.
"I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little hole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?" -David Hockney
I've not heard that quote before. It's true! Might I change it to optionally include "It's a one-eye woman looking..."
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