"How Wide...?" 2727 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 2 months ago | Thread started: Mar 12, 10, 1:33 p.m.

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• SteveJobs

  10 is very wide - near fisheye, so i'd def say higher

  • also, no barrel distortion or anything telling of a wider lens. could be wrong tho– SteveJobs1/2

    oh, i missed this comment here– acescence2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:45 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  really wide lens = lots of barrel distortion and goofy looking proportions

  • Platon does this for effect... most people don't like it.... subjects often hate it– vaxorcist

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:52 p.m. – Permalink

• zarkonite

  there's no distortion of either the perspective or the pov. This has to be a long lens, cannot be a wide.

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:56 p.m. – Permalink

• ethanfink

  most fashion portrait is 50mm-100ish

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 1:56 p.m. – Permalink

• xcreonx

  ^ agreed, If it's 35mm film/DSLR then it's prob in the 50 - 100mm range with the camera turned vertical. You would have to back away from the model to get a full body shot in the frame, but this is normal for any studio work. There's usually a good separation between the background - model - photographer. Gives better DOF.

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 2:02 p.m. – Permalink

• danthon

  50mm on a full frame slr would only have to be around ten feet from subject to get this wide. Cropped sensor around 15feet

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 2:03 p.m. – Permalink

• ethanfink

  This article is good...
  

  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foc…

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 2:08 p.m. – Permalink

• epic_rim

  I'm guessing between 50 to 85mm

  • <<<– duckofrubber1/2

    yup. 70mm– pizzafire2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 2:13 p.m. – Permalink

• johngrif

  I wouldn't use a wide angle lens to shoot people. Just my two cents.

  • YUP– linearch

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 3:29 p.m. – Permalink

• mrghost

  the question should not be about lens.. always use a long lens (as it flattens the face and creates a more beautiful person) but about the size of the room in which you would need to shoot with said lens to obtain the space that is portrayed.

  • assuming you have full frame ccd– mrghost1/2

    There is a point where a lens becomes too long, flattening the face too much.– nb2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 3:51 p.m. – Permalink

• pauli

  yes, mrhogst, you are right about that.
  I notices that when I use my long L series canon (Im still a noob, though) the further way I get from my subject ( and in return increase my focal legnth) the greater my sharpness and DOF!

  • (also you should look into getting a fixed lens, no more zoooomin)– mrghost

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 5:20 p.m. – Permalink

• pauli

  why do you recommend a fixed lens

  • better definition– idiots1/2

    faster f-stop, usually faster focus, and you learn to pre-frame in your mind -> better photographer– vaxorcist2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 5:27 p.m. – Permalink

• mrghost

  most of the time a fixed lens will be faster than a comparable zoom.. this is because inside of a zoom lens the optics will have to move while in a fixed lens they do not... a faster lens will capture more light and reduce shutter speed therefore [@idiots] giving you better definition.

  (the speed of a lens is the lowest aperture setting)

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 5:35 p.m. – Permalink

• sequoia

  The benifit of a fast lens in fashion is the ability to have a very shallow depth of the field. Which allows you to through the background out focus, keeping the focus on your subject.

  • Canon 135mm F2.0 is divine...– vaxorcist

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 7:15 p.m. – Permalink

• sequoia

  *through = throw

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 7:16 p.m. – Permalink

• nb

  There is no way those images are shot with 10-22mm. An ultra wide lens would create distortion, plus there are no lenses that wide that can produce images that sharp.

  I'd guess somewhere between 35-50mm, assuming it was shot on an APS-C or 35mm DSLR.

  @idiots is right, fixed lenses provide better definition. But not because they are faster. They are generally made with fewer elements and better glass. Even if you have a fast fixed lens, like a 50mm f1.8, 1.4 or 1.2, you will still get sharper results shooting at f8. Not all fixed lenses are spectacular, but many are. Most fixed lenses are sharper than most zooms. It is rare to see a zoom lens produce better results than a fixed focal length.

  • some $2000+ zooms are sharp, but so are $300 non-zoom lenses....– vaxorcist

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 9:40 p.m. – Permalink

• pauli

  yeah when I do a quick check on Vimeo for 50mm 1.8 lens its quite easy to say that the fixed lens produces unbelievable sharpness!
  Vimeo is becoming a great resource for camera/lens research!

  • yes... and it cost about the same as a couple of bar tabs and pub lunches....– vaxorcist

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 10, 10:02 p.m. – Permalink

• vaxorcist

  Platon shows you what a wide lens does.....
  

  

  

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  Dog-earMar 14, 10, 10:26 a.m. – Permalink