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Photo of object - seems much further in photo than what I see myself?

  • 25-06-2008 7:41pm
    #1
    podgeandrodge
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    Hope someone can explain - if I take a photo of say a ship in the harbour - the photograph makes it look much further away than what I would perceive with my own vision... is this dependent on the type of lens or just a fact of life?

    hope I'm making sense!:o


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  • #2
    Hugh_C
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    It's the lens. If you're using a wide lens, then objects will appear further away, if it's a long lens, then it'll appear closer. Read about it here


  • #3
    City-Exile
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    There's also the fact that you probably wouldn't be looking at the resultant picture in it's actual size. You'd print it smaller & reduce the size to view it on a screen.


  • #4
    podgeandrodge
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    thanks guys. The easiest way I can put it is that I was taking a photo of a ship docked in port from across the street (with an N95 phone) and what I was looking at visually was a huge ship but in the resulting photo the ship looked smaller than it should have - but I'm guessing this is because it was taking up a small proportion of the photo whereas my eyes were effectively focusing on the ship alone..


  • #5
    City-Exile
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    Did you try zooming in with the camera?
    The sensor on the N95 is tiny!
    Also, the lens is so short, so it will give you a very wide view.


  • #6
    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,914 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    there's no optical zoom on the N95 so I didn't bother..
    think I'm copping on now to what you are saying about the lens being the thing that matters but what is a "short" lens i.e. is this related to , say, a 35mm lens on a normal digicam?

    and what denotes a long lens? In digital camera speak? Never realised until now how little I understood about photography!


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  • #7
    leohoju
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    City-Exile wrote: »
    Did you try zooming in with the camera?
    The sensor on the N95 is tiny!
    Also, the lens is so short, so it will give you a very wide view.

    Exactly.


  • #8
    leohoju
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭leohoju


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    there's no optical zoom on the N95 so I didn't bother..
    think I'm copping on now to what you are saying about the lens being the thing that matters but what is a "short" lens i.e. is this related to , say, a 35mm lens on a normal digicam?

    and what denotes a long lens? In digital camera speak? Never realised until now how little I understood about photography!

    Actually, according to this, the N95 has an equivalent focal length of 35mm.

    So what you have is a little wider than a "normal lens", if 50mm is to be taken as "normal". A "short" or wide-angle lens would be anything below 50mm really. And a "long" or telephoto lens is, in theory, anything above the 50mm.

    A very simplistic explanation and I'm sure others can give something a little better than what I've just typed.


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