The dictionary of photography for the amateur and professional photographer (1897)
Wall, E. J. (Edward John), 1860-1928, Bolas, Thomas · London : Hazell, Watson & Viney · leaf 47
ses. Wide-angle lenses exaggerate perspective most painfully, in increasing the apparent size of near objects entirely out of all proportion with those more distant, unless the photograph is viewed from a point corresponding to the focus of the lens used — a course more practicable as an experiment… … Fig. 4. include a greater angle than 50°, the wide-angle lens being reserved for obtaining representations of objects not obtainable without it, as high buildings in narrow streets. Practically a lens includes a wide angle, or a large amount of subject, only when its focus is short as compared to…
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