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Article: How wide is your lens' view?
- Article from:
- PSA Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
- Author:
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Most of us who own 35mm cameras now have an assortment of zoom lenses to cover a convenient range of focal lengths. But many of the longer focal lengths are of the fixed-focus variety. And even within the range of focal lengths covered by our zooms, there may remain a fixed-focus lens we use occasionally. So from time to time we still find ourselves using fixed-focus lenses.
A question which sometimes arises as we reach into the camera bag for the appropriate lens is, "Which focal length do I need to capture adequately the subject I want to photograph?" There is one focal length that will serve best to fill the frame with the subject I have in mind.
The ...