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True, but only by the standards of traditional photography... The standard iPhone lens (26mm) has always been pretty much normal for phone camera lenses. When
by sib 7y ago
True, but only by the standards of traditional photography...
The standard iPhone lens (26mm) has always been pretty much normal for phone camera lenses. When Apple introduced the second lens (51mm), they called it "telephoto," even though that focal length is pretty much dead-on the traditional definition for a "standard" lens. No traditional photographer would call a 51mm lens a telephoto lens.
So, for people who grew up with phones as their primary cameras, the new 13mm lens really is the first thing that they'd call a "wide angle" lens.
/end_nitpick ;)
- bydo 7y agoTo continue this, “normal” is a technical term in photography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_lens
- bt848 7y agoCan we please speak in terms of angle of view? Converting everything to "35mm SLR equivalent" focal lengths is tiresome and misleading. The main camera on an iPhone has a 70-degree field of view, which most people consider wide.
- sib 7y agoWhile I agree with you (hobbyist DSLR photog with everything from 14mm to 500mm lenses) that field of view is more precise, I think most people don't know the correlation between the two. I'd say that far more people in the general population understand the 35mm equivalent. The main camera is a wide by traditional standards, but not by phone camera standards, where the main (primary, "normal") camera has always been a wide angle, so nobody whose primary camera is a phone would think of it as wide.