Digital BW, The Print

HI. Not to be picky either but perspective is a function of position,
not of lens focal length.

Regards
Duane


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pglombick"
<glombick@...> wrote:
>
> > 
> > Myself, my thinking evolved over the years to the point of seeing the 
> > negative as just a step in arriving at a finished image. In fact, 
> > when using 4x5 I often would crop an image to achieve a framing 
> > and/or depth compression that I couldn't achieve in the field 
> > (landscape photography). In other words by shooting 4x5 with a 240mm 
> > lens and then cropping to 2x2-1/2 I could achieve the depth 
> > compression of a 480 mm lens. 
> > 
> 
> I don't mean to be picky, by say you used a 48mm lens (if such a thing 
> existed) and cropped the negative to 50% o the original, it would not 
> have the "depth compression", or in other words, perspective, of a 24mm 
> lens.
>