TomHackett wrote:
Clearly, a 50mm lens together with a full frame sensor does not match "the human field of vision." But the human field of vision includes central vision (what you're looking at) and peripheral vision, where you may be aware of movement or light or color, but which you can't really be said to "see" in any meaningful way. Try, for example, to read the words on the cover of a book or magazine that is more than a few degrees from the object you are directly looking at. The advantage of having such a wide field of vision is that our eye (brain, really) can become are of a change of light or a sense of movement in the peripheral area and pull the eye toward it so as to see what's really going on there.
Here's a little experiment I tried. I don't know if it has particular value, but I found it interesting. Look directly into the viewfinder of your camera with one eye. Now, with the other eye open and not obstructed, try to overlay what you see with each eye. If one eye sees the subject as larger or smaller, adjust your focal length until they match. For me, that seemed to be about 60mm using a FF sensor. Does that make any sense?
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