Portrait perspective issues investigated

[Jac@stafford.net]

Alan... Did you crop your girlfriend's portrait to 8x10 format? If so, a 'normal' lens for 24x30mm film being 38mm...[...]

It's been a while since I thought in terms of 135 film, but the diagonal (nominal normal) is 43mm.

An issue with normal lenses is that the usual lens is not distortion-corrected for close-ups.

I will say this. My girlfriend was pretty but she was extremely photogenic.

Yeah! Post the picture or it never happened. Oh, and a shot of the car, too!

[Old-N-Feeble]

It's been a while since I thought in terms of 135 film, but the diagonal (nominal normal) is 43mm.<snip>

...unless 135 is cropped to 4x5/8x10 format which only uses 24x30mm area of the film (at most). However, apparently very little cropping was done as 3.5x5 inch prints use most of a 135 format frame.

[Alan Gales]

Yeah! Post the picture or it never happened. Oh, and a shot of the car, too!

Boy, you're tough! This was back when I was 21. I'm now 53 and I no longer have the 19 year old girlfriend, the car, the camera or the photographs.

[Jac@stafford.net]

Boy, you're tough! This was back when I was 21. I'm now 53 and I no longer have the 19 year old girlfriend, the car, the camera or the photographs.

Well, I'm 70 and I still have my old '58 VW Bug. Still working on the 19 year-old girlfriend thing. It ain't lookin good.

[Alan Gales]

Well, I'm 70 and I still have my old '58 VW Bug. Still working on the 19 year-old girlfriend thing. It ain't lookin good.

Yeah, but a 58 VW Bug is pretty neat. A 73 Dodge Dart not so much! I do wish I had held onto my 67 Chevy short bed pickup though.

Good luck with the 19 year old girlfriend. I think you have to be a Rolling Stone or famous movie star to get that.


By the way, that is one nice looking car you have!