Sort of like 50mm being described as ordinatary even though hardly anyone uses them anymore, so they give a fairly uncommon angle of view. People are so lemming like. Herb wrote that in Modern Photography in 1961 and billions will repeat it until the sun burns out.

(Sad headshake)

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Rob Studdert wrote:
On 23 Dec 2004 at 15:52, William Robb wrote:


I had always thought that 28mm was about the widest angle lens that could be made with simple and inexpensive optical designs.


Maybe so. I just get annoyed when lenses are prescribed photographic "functions", to me a lens designation and focal length tells me no more that its effective AOV and whether I can expect it to be capable of nearing 1:1 mag ratios. The more we speak about certain focal lengths being ideal for a certain situation the more likely images of that subject begin to look homogeneous.


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