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Focal length doesn't do anything to perspective. Perspective is dependent on the location (distance) relative to subject. Different focal lengths will make you

• coldtea 4y ago
  >Focal length doesn't do anything to perspective. Perspective is dependent on the location (distance) relative to subject. That's a pedantic way to put it, in the sense that someone says "it's not the fall that hurts you, it's hitting the ground". Sure, but not very usefull. It's the same if you add the extra parameter of "changing the position" into the matter of focal lens vs perspective. Another way to see it is that if you stand in the same place and point to the same thing, a larger focal length will do compress the perspective more.
  • rhn_mk1 4y ago
    > if you stand in the same place and point to the same thing, a larger focal length What will happen then? > will do compress the perspective more. Beep! Wrong! That's why I'm pedantic about the topic. Try it yourself with a zoom lens. The right answer is: "will capture a smaller angle of the same scene." No perspective change. Ignoring details coming from resolution, you might as well crop the picture.