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About to dive in: Is X-E3 + 35mm f1.4 a good 'single prime' camera choice?

Started Mar 21, 2018 | Discussions thread
tokumeino Veteran Member • Posts: 3,175
Re: Wait, what?
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Hypoxic wrote:

Wait, am I confused? I thought perspective was the distance from camera to subject. How does the lens focal length change this? It is my understanding that focal length differences do not cause distortion.

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Dave Jaseck wrote:

Keep in mind while it may give you a 35mm FOV on a Fuji sensor, is still has the perspective of a 23mm. I have a 24mm on a full frame Canon and would be the last lens I would choose for a portrait with the facial distortion it would give, other than perhaps a shot of man in his environment type of photograph.

You are perfectly right. As far as words mean something, perspective is not framing. Perspective is about the relative size of close/far objects and indeed, it only a function of the distance to the subject. And once you have chosen a perspective, you choose a focal length (or you crop afterwards) so as to adjust the frame. Changing the FL does not alter perspective at all : it only affects framing.

Incidentally, while we are speaking about fixed lenses, there is no such thing as "zooming with your feet". With your feet, you change the perspective, you don't zoom. Zoom is more like cropping.

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