speters wrote:
If you think about it for a while, it'll make sense even in a logical manner (common sense). A wide angle is called wide, because it seems to stretch things, you see everything from a wider perspective, while a tele is going the other way, it "kinda" compresses things, so when looked at, they seem closer together than usual. The same thing happens if you look through a magnifying glass, or think about using a pair of binoculars, it brings everything closer to you, while appearently compressing things together (that part of perspective - the distance - is lost at viewing point,but if you turn your binoculars around, it shows the reverse! Things stretching apart as they get wider. The same thing happens with every change in focal length (changing lenses on your camera) A different view on the perspective!
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Thanks for your reply. I think I am going to have to get my camera out and my binoculars and see if I can get my brain around this. In the past I have just sort of accepted that these things happen when you change focal length and never really considered what is really going on. I'm on it now.