Practice question · True or false
Changing from a 35 mm to an 85 mm lens without moving the camera changes the perspective of the photograph.
Hints
- Consider whether the distances from the lens to the objects have changed.
- Both objects are magnified by the same factor.
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False
Why
False. Perspective is set by the relative distances from the camera to the things in front of it, and swapping lenses changes none of them. Both objects are magnified equally, so their size ratio is identical, the 85 mm frame is exactly a crop of the 35 mm one, enlarged.
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