Nice shot! 70 mm and no much of a compression feel ;-) And the front face portion of the loco is losing its paint!

Posted by Siddhartha Ganesh on 2007 Dec 31 05:12:46 +0000

Sid, there is no compression as on a DSLR, 70mm makes it really 112mm (Canon 1.6 Nikon 1.5). On your S5, it corresponds to 18.6mm on the Exif tag.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Dec 31 08:25:43 +0000

Nice picture, Rohit!

Posted by Pawan Koppa on 2007 Dec 31 08:25:52 +0000

Experts correct me if I am wrong, but a compression effect will always be there whether you use a DSLR or a point & shoot. Lenses above the 50mm lenses(50 is considered the normal focal lenght) will give compression effects. However the effect will be noticably visble only at longer focal lengths shot at longer Field of Views.

Posted by Mayur Shinde on 2007 Dec 31 09:58:27 +0000

Is that an RPF mamu or just a gangman that we see alongside?

Posted by Karan Desai on 2007 Dec 31 11:54:07 +0000

50mm is purely the field of view with one eye. Now if we look at the world with both, it doesnt look distorted though the angle of view is greater. This is because it is wide and not Ultrawide. Similarly even in telephoto, I would consider the film 135mm to be the first focal lenghts at which compression gets noticed.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Dec 31 17:37:18 +0000

Longer focal lenght = Narrow FOV, not longer FOV.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Dec 31 17:38:03 +0000