jamietea20

A lot of good information and clarification. So am I right in saying the lens NEVER distort the image, only the "perspective" does. Like a typical persecutive shot of any building or highway?

1)"Distortion" in portraits has to do with where you stand. Could you elaborate? 2) Rest assured that you can easily tell the difference between 35 mm film and 4x5 film (or larger) on 11 x 14 inch prints. Hollywood movies are shot on 35mm 2 perf, 3 perf, 4 perf, and 65mm, 70mm, blown up to a 25ft screen at least. There is a difference between 16mm and 70mm, absolutely, but I'd like to see someone tell me if something is shot on 35mm and 65mm without looking up imdb. Or even better, some movies are shot with 35mm and 65mm in different scene and "stitched" in the final print. Would anyone be kind to spot which scene is for which, in a movie theatre? That's way larger than a photo print on the table.

I read a lot of theorist talks about photography that I find it dubious, suspicious if not pretentious. Such as: 1) 35mm/medium/large format have a different look 2) 50mm lens distort portrait more than 75mm, which in theory is true, but I can't tell the difference by my naked eye. 3) Image sharpness varies at different F stop for the same lens. 4) As well as, beat to death debate of film looks different than digital. ( I'm talking about color graded film stocks used for motion picture specifically) And I really wish someone had done some comprehensive blind test with the so-called "Professional Photographers" and show me that given the same image, they can really tell 1) which one is shot on 35/medium/large 2) 50mm or 75mm or 80mm in terms of distortion 3) sharpness at different F stops 4) whether it is shot on film or digital for the same scene. I hope I'm not being negative, but if I honestly can not tell the difference in sharpness they are talking about. They all look exactly the same. IMAGE REMOVED Nor, the discussion about which camera has what sensor, like found here: Can You Guess Which Camera Took Which Picture? But even if you can tell the difference, tell me you didn't stare at it for long, and actively look for the minute details. In a real life situation, (especially motion pictures), how is anyone able to tell the difference really befuddles me. Is this theoretical talk all gimmicks that people/ organizations use to keep themselves relevant? Are there other people think the same or would like to defend themselves? Thanks for you input.

So I wonder what type of industry (bulk) film scanner do typical/small commercial lab use. I intend to shoot some 35mm panorama, and there fore there won't be any frame divider once every normal 35mm frame. I don't want to spend the extra money to have it flatbed scanned so I wonder if the automated bulk scanner will be able to scan correctly without cutting the frames. Or do they automatically cut off for normal 35mm frames? I guess it's probably more of the matter of the software that they use with the scanner, if so in that case, could I request the lab to tweak it for me to render a continuous image? Has anyone done this before?

Yes, I was looking for this confirmation that the image size will be the same.

Thanks. No, I wasn't going to use a 55mm designed for a 35 on a medium format. I was going to use a 55mm designed for 6x7 but shoot 35mm film on it. So I can achieve a panoramic effect, but I also want to keep the portrait subject as if they were shot on a 55mm straight out of a 35mm camera, if that makes sense. So in this case, there should not be any vignetting, I just want to make sure the subject size,

Maybe the above post is a little confusing, but to clarify, am I correct in saying, for the same subject in the image shot on: (A 55mm lens on 6x7 film, cropped to 35mm size) = (A 55mm lens on 35mm film)

So as the title suggests, I want to shoot 35mm Portrait on an Pentax 6x7. But I don’t know which lens to buy to achieve the equivalent effect/ size of my subject as if they were shot on a 35mm film with a 55mm lens So If I use a 55mm lens for the Pentax 6x7, but shooting with 35mm on it, will I simply get the subject, as they appear on a 35mm film with a 55mm lens? Isn’t this the same as if I were to shoot on a 105mm lens for a 6x7, (which is close to a 53mm for a 35mm equivalent) and then crop to down a 35mm film size? If not, what size of lens should I use, and why?