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14 vs 17 vs 20mm

Started Jan 3, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP EarthQuake Veteran Member • Posts: 3,240
Re: 14 vs 17 vs 20mm

clemcam wrote:

You were quite close to the subject, so a third of a step made up the differences easily. However, if the subject is much further away, the difference will not easily be compensated by "zooming with your feet".

Good point, for a distant landscape, you'll have to move quite a bit more to make up the difference. You'll probably have more room to work in that situation though as well. I would have shot something outside, but, well, it's cold out.

I wonder if the distance you need to move to compensate scales linearly with the distance to subject (ie: double distance to subject, double distance needed to move). Maybe if I get bored I'll do another test with a subject that is further away.

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