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12/02/2003 02:12:36 PM · #1 |
Just a suggestion but maybe the site could offer the possibility to post your focal lenght when you submit a photo. That could be a powerfull learning tool for many of us. We all know that this could be a problem because of the difference in focal lenght base between different model of digital camera so maybe there could be an automation that will apply the multiplication factor to cenvert the focal lenght of the camera to it's 35mm equivalent. I'm aware that there is 676 or some camera listed on this site and I volunteer to do the database for the multiplication factor for each one if the user give positive feedback to this idea and the sites administrator want fo add this functionality!!!
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12/02/2003 03:19:13 PM · #2 |
I think it's a great idea.
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12/02/2003 03:27:31 PM · #3 |
This has been requested and discussed several times before.
The problem is that once you crop a portion of the image (and I'd say very few of the submissions are "as framed in the camera"), the focal length doesn't have much meaning any more... especially if the crop is not the same as the imaging sensor's 3:2 aspect ratio, since the horizontal and vertical values wouldn't be the same. |
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12/02/2003 03:40:31 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by EddyG:
(and I'd say very few of the submissions are "as framed in the camera") |
I can never get my head around that way of shooting - though of course its perfectly reasonable for a contest that is about a 640x480 file. Pretty much every single shot I've entered here are as framed in camera - with at most a really minor rotation and crop of a few pixels - but I've had the idea of print-worthy shots drilled into me and you don't get those by cropping later. |
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12/02/2003 04:09:44 PM · #5 |
I'm at a bit of a loss as to what useful information would be drawn from knowing the focal length...
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12/02/2003 04:15:13 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by EddyG:
(and I'd say very few of the submissions are "as framed in the camera") |
I can never get my head around that way of shooting - though of course its perfectly reasonable for a contest that is about a 640x480 file. Pretty much every single shot I've entered here are as framed in camera - with at most a really minor rotation and crop of a few pixels - but I've had the idea of print-worthy shots drilled into me and you don't get those by cropping later. |
i always try to fill the frame too but it sucks when you have a 3:2 camera and not many stock frame options. although i have found cheap places that will do custom frames
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12/02/2003 04:16:44 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
I'm at a bit of a loss as to what useful information would be drawn from knowing the focal length... |
i.e. i thought until just few days ago that is possible with my camera to make a macro shot that is really in focus with a really blurry background that give the shot almost a 3D effect. How? you take the same shot as usual but far from the object AND zooming in... That may seem like plain logic but iI didn't know and maybe having seen the focal lenght in many of the shots here would have given me a clue weeks before. Until i realized that i tought it would have take me a camera with a maximum aperture value of f0.3 to do that...
Message edited by author 2003-12-02 16:18:04.
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