Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . these short-focus lenses. But they are incorrectrepresentations; the only difference is that the eye cannot detect, as in the case ofarchitecture, the faults that have been introduced, unless previously familiar with thescene depicted. It is not improbable that some of my readers may doubt the fact that I have here sopositively affirmed of the equality of the perspective angles produced by different lensesof different focal lengths when taken from the same stati
Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . these short-focus lenses. But they are incorrectrepresentations; the only difference is that the eye cannot detect, as in the case ofarchitecture, the faults that have been introduced, unless previously familiar with thescene depicted. It is not improbable that some of my readers may doubt the fact that I have here sopositively affirmed of the equality of the perspective angles produced by different lensesof different focal lengths when taken from the same station-point. It is common to speakof the sharp angles produced by lenses of short focal lengths, and those views which weare accustomed to see produced by short focus lenses are habitually taken from station-points too near the object. So that two causes concur to make these sharp angles painful,first, that they are rendered additionally sharp by being taken from too short distances,and second, that short focus lenses produce small pictures in which^ as above explained,the eye refuses to tolerate sharp angles.—M. Carey Lea, OUTDOOR OPERATIONS. 195 Fig. 194. is an amount of subject which it would be impossible to secure in a pho-tograph from the same point of sight, and at the same time preserv^e properperspective. Wlieu proper distancecan be had and the cor-rect elevation for thecamera secured, as illus-trated by the fine view ofHarbor Islands, LakeGeorge,^ by Mr. H. (Fig. 194), thenwe can obtain quantityof subject and quality,though, of course, theobjects must be dimin-ished. Fig. 195.
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