I'm completely convinced "normal" lens focal length, for me, is about 65 to 70mm. Does anyone feel the same? I was sitting in my spare bedroom the other nite, camera and FA 28-70 1:4 lens (that my coworkers got me for Christmas!) just kind of zooming in and out, when I noticed that my "field of view" in my free eye matched that of the lens at about 65mm. It's pretty close to normal, but not too close.
Chris Mike wrote: A 50mm can be used either as a slight "wide angle" or a slight "telephoto" depending on the way you see with it. I have an exercise where I give students a small stack of prints and ask them to separate the ones taken with a 35mm from those taken at 70mm. They find this exercise relatively easy, the trick being that ALL the pictures were taken with a 50mm. However, 50mm does tend to rope you into "seeing" a little longer. That is, to concentrate on single, central subjects and not thinking in terms of organizing broader scenes into pictures. For that, it can get a bit cramped sometimes. 43mm is a very relaxed but realistic angle of view. Shame there aren't more lenses in betwixt and between 35mm and 50mm. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
