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Any long lens you buy is going to use the telephoto design, it's a given. A fairly mild crop to say make a 85mm simulate a 105mm is almost undetectable in term

by w0mbat 6y ago

Any long lens you buy is going to use the telephoto design, it's a given. A fairly mild crop to say make a 85mm simulate a 105mm is almost undetectable in terms of quality, and the difference that can make to the look of a portrait because you took a few steps further back and then cropped to get the same framing as a 105mm, is very noticeable.

franga2000 6y ago
You need much more than a 20mm difference to make social-distancing people look like they're basically hugging, which is what the article is about. Either way, none of this matters anyways because the whole point of the article is the compression effect, not where it comes from and in their case, it came from a telephoto lens, not a cropped wide-angle, so the terminology is entirely fine.