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We would've been fooled (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That’s highly misleading.

The difference is not caused by the focal length but by the distance of the subject from the camera. The only difference between a longer and shorter lens is the field of view. To get the same framing with a 24mm and 200mm you need to be at different distances, but that doesn’t mean the focal length causes the different look. If you took a photo with the 24mm from the same distance as the 200mm and you cropped it so the framing is the same, they would look identical.

Here is a video demonstrating this