MSA O/N September, 2025 - "Wide Angle Perspective"

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Old, 2011. Cincinnati, Ohio on a bitterly cold day.

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Andrew O'Neill said:
I think the majority of us know this, clive. But...usually when we use short lenses we move our camera's position in closer to our subject, hence changing our perspective. Are you going to participate or be picky?
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I can't contribute, as I haven't used a wideangle or telephoto lens for many, many years.
 

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Which reminds me of this one from 2017:

cliveh said:
I can't contribute, as I haven't used a wideangle or telephoto lens for many, many years.
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cliveh said:
I can't contribute, as I haven't used a wideangle or telephoto lens for many, many years.
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Sure you can Clive - you just need to use the alternate theme description:

As @russljames posted, bring them on!
Your choice of course, but I'd suggest your most recent Gallery upload called "Bullring" is eminently worthy of consideration.
 

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"Ramping it up and down"
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cliveh said:
The title of this thread is wide angle perspective, but wide angle does not affect perspective.
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Perhaps if understood wide angle point of view.
 

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New, yesterday, trying this Zodiak-8. Provia 400X expired in 2015 and frozen, traded to me from a guy here on Photrio.

 

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Old? Developed this month but taken last October. Canon EOS Elan 7E with Samyang 14mm f/2.8. 2010 Expired Fuji Sensia 400.

 

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Here are four- three old and one new ( about a month ago). 1) old Bob Marley - Ilford HP5 with the Ilford Titan pinhole camera and the short cone, 2) old Tree trunk at Quinault rain forest ilford Delta 400 with Hasselblad Distagon 50mm FLE, 3) old Capitol Reef, Utah also Delta 400 and the 50mm FLE and 4) newish Begonia leaf HP5 with the same pinhole. All were at box speed, normal processing times and the cameras were on sturdy tripods. For the purpose of the thread all were negative scans since my prints are too large for my scanner. the only editing is cropping and some selective burning and dodging and possibly slight contrast adjustment to match my printing choices.
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We’re just past the halfway point of the month and I am loving the great array of images that have been posted so far. This is going to be a tough one to judge.

@GregY- Unless winter has arrived early this year in Alberta, I’m going to assume that the Mamiya 6 picture falls into the “old” category. What about the 4x10, old or new?

Russ
 

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cliveh said:
The title of this thread is wide angle perspective, but wide angle does not affect perspective.
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Indeed only camera position truly affects 'perspective'.
Nevertheless, this illustrates the perspective achievable only with a WA focal length...the relative size of the two hands cannot be exaggerated any other way...

 
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Old, exposed on a three month trip in 2015.

Bronco Yard Fence, or what remains of it. This is in the Diamantina NP, which is basically the old Diamantina Station in far western Qld. This fence is somewhere along the 90km one way, high clearance 4x4 track in the park.

The wire on the ground is roughly 500mm from the camera.

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Old. October, 2019. Contax 139 Yashica 28mm lens. That's as wide as I have on that camera. Some people don't consider 28mm wide on 135, but I do. No clue what film. Negative scan.

 

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wiltw said:
Indeed only camera position truly affects 'perspective'.
Nevertheless, this illustrates the perspective achievable only with a WA focal length...the relative size of the two hands cannot be exaggerated any other way...

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Yes and perhaps I,m being picky again, but when you use a focal length not similar to the viewing angle of the human eye, do you take into accont the correct viewing distance for the magnification of your print size? Or does this not matter?
 

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cliveh said:
Yes and perhaps I,m being picky again, but when you use a focal length not similar to the viewing angle of the human eye, do you take into accont the correct viewing distance for the magnification of your print size? Or does this not matter?
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The human eye has a horizontal viewing angle of about 200 degrees and a vertical of about 130 degrees. No lens, other than perhaps some sort of specialty fish eye comes even close. See:

https://developer.tobii.com/xr/learn/eye-behavior/visual-angles/

What is the maximum human field of vision?

The maximum human field of vision (FOV) is approximately 200 degrees horizontally and 135 degrees vertically. This range
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Viewing distance as a function of print size, has to do with the perception of sharpness and what is required to achieve this. That's why an 8x10 hanging on the wall and a billboard on the side of the road both look "sharp" even the though at around 2 lp/mm the billboard has far less resolution. However - assuming quality lenses - the focal length used to produce the said image won't really as regards to sharpness. Wider lenses do have other issues that have to be considered like field curvature.
 
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