Object size appearence at the lateral extreme of an image area

pablitch wrote:

To explore this a bit further, what if the camera was pointed at a group of people waiting at a crosswalk, and the people crossed from right to left, with the left side of the crosswalk being near the left edge of the field of view for the camera's position. (all other things being equal, basically the people moved from a point at the direct center of the camera along the same horizontal plane, to a more distant point to the left extreme of the camera field of view).

The people would be at a greater distance from the camera (lens/sensor), so wouldn't the people appear to be smaller (at least shorter in height?) in the camera image?

thanks.